DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kr202
title: Data from: Infectious disease transmission and behavioral allometry in wild mammals

description: 1. Animal social and movement behaviors can impact the transmission
 dynamics of infectious diseases, especially for pathogens transmitted
 through close contact between hosts or through contact with infectious
 stages in the environment. 2. Estimating pathogen transmission rates and
 R0 from natural systems can be challenging. Because host behavioral traits
 that underlie the transmission process vary predictably with body size,
 one of the best-studied traits among animals, body size might therefore
 also predict variation in parasite transmission dynamics. 3. Here, we
 examine how two host behaviors, social group living and the intensity of
 habitat use, scale allometrically using comparative data from wild
 primate, carnivore and ungulate species. We use these empirical
 relationships to parameterize classical compartment models for infectious
 micro- and macroparasitic diseases, and examine how the risk of pathogen
 invasion changes as a function of host behavior and body size. We then
 test model predictions using comparative data on parasite prevalence and
 richness from wild mammals. 4. We report a general pattern suggesting that
 smaller-bodied mammal species utilizing home ranges more intensively
 experience greater risk for invasion by environmentally-transmitted
 macroparasites. Conversely, larger-bodied hosts exhibiting a high degree
 of social group living could be more readily invaded by
 directly-transmitted microparasites. These trends were supported through
 comparison of micro- and macroparasite species richness across a large
 number of carnivore, primate and ungulate species, but empirical data on
 carnivore macroparasite prevalence showed mixed results. 5. Collectively,
 our study demonstrates that combining host behavioral traits with
 dynamical models of infectious disease scaled against host body size can
 generate testable predictions for variation in parasite risk across
 species; a similar approach might be useful in future work focused on
 predicting parasite distributions in local host communities.
description: Dryad carnivore helminth
 prevalenceThe prevalence of
 helminth parasites infecting wild carnivore species (a subset of the 2005
 update of the Global Mammal Parasite Database).Dryad carnivore helminth
 PSRThe number of unique
 helminth parasites (parasite species richness (PSR)) infecting wild
 carnivore species (a subset of the 2005 update of the Global Mammal
 Parasite Database).Dryad ungulate helminth
 prevalenceThe prevalence of
 helminth parasites infecting non-domesticated ungulate species (a subset
 of the 2005 update of the Global Mammal Parasite
 Database).Dryad ungulate helminth
 PSRThe number of unique
 helminth parasites (parasite species richness (PSR)) infecting
 non-domesticated species (a subset of the 2005 update of the Global Mammal
 Parasite Database).Dryad ungulate virus
 bacteria prevalenceThe prevalence of
 microparasites (viruses and bacteria) infecting non-domesticated ungulate
 species (a subset of the 2005 update of the Global Mammal Parasite
 Database).Dryad ungulate virus
 bacteria PSRThe number of unique
 virus and bacteria microparasites (parasite species richness (PSR))
 infecting non-domesticated ungulate species (a subset of the 2005 update
 of the Global Mammal Parasite Database).Dryad D-index carnivores
 primates ungulatesDefensibility index
 calculated from day range length and home range area for carnivores,
 ungulates, and primates. Data collated from PanTHERIA and Carbone et al.
 2005. See the manuscript for further details.Dryad primate virus
 bacteria prevalenceThe prevalence of
 microparasites (viruses and bacteria) infecting wild primate species (a
 subset of the Global Mammal Parasite Database).Dryad primate virus
 bacteria PSRThe number of unique
 virus and bacteria microparasites (parasite species richness (PSR))
 infecting wild primate species (a subset of the Global Mammal Parasite
 Database).Dryad primate helminth
 prevalenceThe prevalence of
 helminth parasites infecting wild primate species (a subset of Global
 Mammal Parasite Database).Dryad primate helminth
 PSRThe number of unique
 helminth parasites (parasite species richness (PSR)) infecting wild
 primate species (a subset of the Global Mammal Parasite
 Database).R0_microR code to calculate R0 for microparasites for mammalsR0_macroR code to calculate R0 for macroparasites for mammals