Habitat associations of Culicoides species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) abundant on a commercial cervid farm in Florida, USA

Table 5 Model averaging summary showing the magnitude of effect and relative importance of different environmental variables in puddle habitats on the abundance of C. stellifer

Environmental variable	Estimate (SE)	Relative variable importance	n (containing models)
Intercept	0.76 (0.49)
pH	− 0.31 (0.25)	0.67	4
Phosphorus	− 0.35 (0.35)	0.66	5
Electrical conductivity	− 0.12 (0.20)	0.35	2
Potassium	0.22 (0.34)	0.33	3
Magnesium	− 0.17 (0.29)	0.33	3
Organic matter	− 0.10 (0.21)	0.24	2
Zinc	0.04 (0.14)	0.11	1

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