Table 1 Model 1: posterior mean, standard deviation, 2.5% and 97.5% quartiles and estimates of fixed and random effects for the seasonal model of tick abundance, Dataset 1

Intercept

− 150.7016

32.7201

− 214.9447

− 86.5187

April

2.3606

0.3390

1.7198

3.0520

May

1.9424

0.3174

1.3467

2.5944

June

1.8192

0.3178

1.2227

2.4718

July

1.2388

0.3149

0.6485

1.8863

August

1.3438

0.3151

0.7530

1.9916

September

1.4308

0.3186

0.8325

2.0850

Land surface temperature in July

0.0103

0.0022

0.0059

0.0147

No. days of frost in September

− 0.4035

0.0954

− 0.5910

− 0.2167

Roe deer

0.0096

0.0034

0.0030

0.0163

% cover of deciduous woodland

2.5341

0.7380

1.0837

3.9806

% cover of coniferous woodland

0.9053

0.2138

0.4848

1.3240

Interaction between latitude and longitude

0.0010

0.0018

− 0.0026

0.0045