Effects of forest structure on the endoparasitism in roe deer Capreolus capreolus

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Table 3

Best model set descriptions and extracted values for the prevalence of each parasite species. In bold: significant effect (p-value < 0.05) of the predictor in each model.

Parasite prevalence (Response variable)	Best model	Significant parameters in the model selected	Estimate ± SE	z-value	p-value	R²m	R²c
GI strongyles (n = 1469)	Sector	Intercept	0.12 ± 0.14	0.85	0.39	0.11	0.20
		Age	−0.17 ± 0.06	−2.70	0.007
		Sex (Male)	0.18 ± 0.13	1.42	0.15
		Body mass	−0.67 ± 0.07	−9.09	<0.001
		Julian date	0.01 ± 0.07	0.20	0.84
		Sector (P)	0.33 ± 0.13	2.56	0.01
Trichuris sp. (n = 1466)	Sector	Intercept	−0.01 ± 0.17	−0.08	0.93	0.22	0.40
		Age	−0.02 ± 0.07	−0.21	0.84
		Sex (Male)	0.41 ± 0.16	2.64	0.01
		Body mass	−1.18 ± 0.11	−11.24	<0.001
		Julian date	0.16 ± 0.08	2.02	0.04
		Sector (P)	0.35 ± 0.15	2.27	0.02
Eimeria spp. (n = 1467)	Sector	Intercept	−0.75 ± 0.12	−6.44	<0.001	0.17	0.23
		Age	−0.56 ± 0.07	−7.72	<0.001
		Sex (Male)	−0.15 ± 0.13	−1.12	0.26
		Body mass	−0.70 ± 0.07	−9.34	<0.001
		Julian date	0.14 ± 0.07	2.12	0.03
		Sector (P)	0.32 ± 0.13	2.44	0.01
Protostrongylids (n = 1422)	Null	Intercept	−2.69 ± 0.39	−6.86	<0.001	0.33	0.51
		Age	−0.67 ± 0.16	−4.13	<0.001
		Age²	0.32 ± 0.09	3.41	<0.001
		Sex (Male)	0.23 ± 0.21	1.09	0.28
		Body mass	−1.59 ± 0.20	−8.07	<0.001
		Julian date	0.001 ± 0.006	0.14	0.89

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