Occurrence of putative Culicoides biting midge vectors (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) inside and outside barns in Germany and factors influencing their activity

Table 6 Coefficients and statistically significant output of the abiotic predictor variables ‘temperature’ and ‘relative humidity’ as calculated by the Poisson-generalised linear model

Abiotic predictor variables^a	Estimate	Standard error	t-value	P
Response variable a
Temperature	0.185839	0.103034	1.80367	0.071282
Relative humidity	0.078589	0.047425	1.65711	0.097498
Response variable b
Temperature	0.094756	0.027844	3.40309	0.00066627***
Relative humidity	0.018293	0.009469	1.93182	0.05338227
Response variable c
Temperature	0.506757	0.123369	4.10764	3.9972e−05***
Relative humidity	0.218053	0.062835	3.47027	5.1994e−04***

***Statistically significant
^aResponse variable ‘a’ is the sum of all Culicoides from all traps; response variable ‘b’ is the sum of Obsoletus Group specimens from all traps; response variable ‘c’ is the sum of Pulicaris Complex specimens from all traps

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