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Repeatability of feather mite prevalence and intensity in passerine birds.
| العنوان: | Repeatability of feather mite prevalence and intensity in passerine birds. |
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| المؤلفون: | Javier Diaz-Real, David Serrano, Javier Pérez-Tris, Sofía Fernández-González, Ana Bermejo, Juan A Calleja, Javier De la Puente, Diana De Palacio, José L Martínez, Rubén Moreno-Opo, Carlos Ponce, Óscar Frías, José L Tella, Anders P Møller, Jordi Figuerola, Péter L Pap, István Kovács, Csongor I Vágási, Leandro Meléndez, Guillermo Blanco, Eduardo Aguilera, Juan Carlos Senar, Ismael Galván, Francisco Atiénzar, Emilio Barba, José L Cantó, Verónica Cortés, Juan S Monrós, Rubén Piculo, Matthias Vögeli, Antoni Borràs, Carlos Navarro, Alexandre Mestre, Roger Jovani |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 9, p e107341 (2014) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Understanding why host species differ so much in symbiont loads and how this depends on ecological host and symbiont traits is a major issue in the ecology of symbiosis. A first step in this inquiry is to know whether observed differences among host species are species-specific traits or more related with host-symbiont environmental conditions. Here we analysed the repeatability (R) of the intensity and the prevalence of feather mites to partition within- and among-host species variance components. We compiled the largest dataset so far available: 119 Paleartic passerine bird species, 75,944 individual birds, ca. 1.8 million mites, seven countries, 23 study years. Several analyses and approaches were made to estimate R and adjusted repeatability (R(adj)) after controlling for potential confounding factors (breeding period, weather, habitat, spatial autocorrelation and researcher identity). The prevalence of feather mites was moderately repeatable (R = 0.26-0.53; R(adj) = 0.32-0.57); smaller values were found for intensity (R = 0.19-0.30; R(adj )= 0.18-0.30). These moderate repeatabilities show that prevalence and intensity of feather mites differ among species, but also that the high variation within species leads to considerable overlap among bird species. Differences in the prevalence and intensity of feather mites within bird species were small among habitats, suggesting that local factors are playing a secondary role. However, effects of local climatic conditions were partially observed for intensity. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4162594?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0107341 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/20baf7ebe808451e99b4ae003cb5f20e |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.20baf7ebe808451e99b4ae003cb5f20e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0107341 |