Table 1.

Effect of D-index, home range overlap and body mass on parasite richness. (Analyses used independent contrasts with n=63 for the D-index and n=36 for home range overlap. Parasite richness served as the dependent variable in a model, with D-index or home range overlap, body mass and sampling effort as predictor variables. Sampling effort was significant in all analyses involving the D-index, but not in all tests of home range overlap (possibly due to smaller sample sizes). Removing sampling effort and body mass from the model produced largely similar results for two analyses of overlap in which sampling effort was non-significant (helminths and protozoa).)

	D-index				home range overlap
	slope: D-index	F-ratio	p-value	mass significant?	slope: range overlap	F-ratio	p-value	mass significant?
parasite taxonomic groups
all combined	0.47	3.58	0.063	no	0.046	0.11	0.75	no
helminths	0.58	6.39	0.014a	nob	−0.044	0.09	0.77	no
viruses	0.43	5.07	0.028	no	0.081	0.63	0.43	no
protozoa	0.46	3.59	0.063	no	0.083	0.38	0.54	no
parasite transmission modes
direct (all combined)	0.5	4.23	0.044	nob	0.00	0.00	≈1.0	no
non-vector (helm.)	0.79	12.2	0.0009a	yes	−0.043	0.01	0.76	no

^aSignificant after implementing false discovery rate control (Verhoeven et al. 2005).

^bp<0.1.