Culicoides species community composition and feeding preferences in two aquatic ecosystems in northern Spain

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Summary of best models for total Culicoides abundance and species richness per trap and night

Variables	Abundance per trap/night			Species richness per trap/night
Variables	Estimate ± SE^a	Z^b	P-value	Estimate ± SE	Z	P-value
Site
Urdaibai	Reference			Reference
Salburua	1.22 ± 0.31	3.93	< 0.001	0.32 ± 0.14	2.23	0.025
Month of sampling
July	Reference			Reference
August	− 3.23 ± 0.41	− 7.78	< 0.001	− 0.90 ± 0.18	− 5.45	< 0.001
September	− 2.87 ± 0.40	− 7.06	< 0.001	− 1.12 ± 0.19	− 5.89	< 0.001
October	− 4.43 ± 0.47	− 9.44	< 0.001	− 2.06 ± 0.29	− 7.02	< 0.001
Year
2018	Reference			Reference
2019	− 0.68 ± 0.31	− 2.17	0.029	− 0.37 ± 0.14	− 2.65	0.008

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