Hi there,

I have data on a population of carrot fly, which have been trapped at various distances from a probable source of the flies, at regular time intervals.

I am interested at looking at the associations between the number of flies caught and other independent factors- including distance from the source, hedgerow properties (e.g. age of hedgerow) and the proportion of host plant species present.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I could statistically analyse or measure the combined effects of the independent variables above upon the number of flies caught? 

I'm aware and confident that I could simply look to see if there are correlations/associations between a singular variable e.g. % cover of a host species against the number of flies caught. However, I am more interested in (and think it is more interesting) considering how say % cover of the host plant species AND distance from the source may impact upon the presence of flies. 

Programs available- SPSS, Minitab, GraphPad etc. and ArcGIS software. 

Many thanks for anyone's kind advice in advance! :-) 

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