Effects of forest structure on the interaction between avian hosts, dipteran vectors and haemosporidian parasites

BMC Ecology

Table 1 Overview of parasite prevalence and parasitemia per avian host species within each forest category

Species	Forest category	Parasite prevalence (mean)	CI (lower)	CI (upper)	n	Parasite intensity (median)	CI (lower)	CI (upper)	n
Cyanistes caeruleus	Unmanaged	0.88	0.25	0.13	8	1.16	0.38	0.64	8
	Age class—old	0.82	0.18	0.18	17	0.93	0.63	1.25	16
	Age class—young	0.78	0.33	0.22	9	0.85	0.85	1.34	9
Erithacus rubecula	Unmanaged	0.47	0.21	0.21	19	na	na	0.30	19
	Age class—old	0.35	0.15	0.19	26	na	na	0.30	25
	Age class—young	0.28	0.17	0.17	29	na	na	na	28
Fringilla coelebs	Unmanaged	0.92	0.12	0.08	25	1.32	0.42	0.29	25
	Age class—old	0.91	0.18	0.09	11	0.95	0.48	0.87	11
	Age class—young	0.75	0.38	0.25	8	0.60	0.60	1.09	6
Parus major	Unmanaged	0.83	0.25	0.17	12	1.04	0.74	0.68	11
	Age class—old	0.82	0.11	0.11	44	0.74	0.44	0.44	44
	Age class—young	0.90	0.13	0.10	30	1.31	0.50	0.10	30
Sylvia atricapilla	Unmanaged	0.80	0.40	0.20	5	0.60	0.60	0.96	5
	Age class—old	0.97	0.07	0.03	29	0.90	0.13	0.28	29
	Age class—young	0.93	0.11	0.07	28	1.10	0.27	0.25	28
Turdus merula	Unmanaged	1.00	0.12	na	18	0.54	0.24	0.48	18
	Age class—old	1.00	0.12	na	16	0.60	0.30	0.24	16
	Age class—young	0.96	0.08	0.04	25	0.70	0.40	0.30	25
Turdus philomelos	Unmanaged	1.00	na	na	8	0.30	na	0.48	8
	Age class—old	0.88	na	na	16	0.30	na	na	16
	Age class—young	0.87	na	na	15	0.30	na	0.30	15

Parasite prevalence (mean) and parasitemia (median, of log₁₀ x + 1 transformed data) per avian host species within each forest category. Confidence intervals (CI) are given with level of 95% after 5000 bootstrap replications, "na" indicates that the CI is not available (i.e., was not calculated)

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