Bird.parasites {MRFcov}

Blood parasite occurrences in New Caledonian birds.

Description

A dataset containing binary occurrences of four blood parasite species in New Caledonian birds. The first four variables represent the parasite occurrences and the last variable is a scaled continuous covariate representing host relative abundance.

Usage

Bird.parasites

Format

A data frame with 449 rows and 5 variables:

Hzosteropis

binary occurrence of Haemoproteus zosteropis

Hkillangoi

binary occurrence of Haemoproteus killangoi

Plas

binary occurrence of Plasmdodium species

Microfilaria

binary occurrence of Microfilaria species

scale.prop.zos

scaled numeric variable representing relative abundance of Zosterops host species

Source

doi:10.5061/dryad.pp6k4

References

Clark, N.J., Wells, K., Dimitrov, D. & Clegg, S.M. (2016) Co-infections and environmental conditions drive the distributions of blood parasites in wild birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 85, 1461-1470.