Table 2.

Correlations (Kendall’s tau) between numbers of tick life stages/tick sex on one body part with tick numbers of the same life stage/sex on other body parts and on the entire roe deer body

		Head	Neck	Rest of the body	Sternum & abdomen	Front legs	Hind legs
Neck-Larvae	Кendall’s tau	0.558
	P-value	<0.001
	n	80
Rest of the body-Larvae	Кendall’s tau	0.472	0.778
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91
Sternum & abdomen-Larvae	Кendall’s tau	0.474	0.643	0.776
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91
Front legs-Larvae	Кendall’s tau	0.445	0.585	0.581	0.491
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91
Hind legs-Larvae	Кendall’s tau	0.45	0.444	0.565	0.673	0.439
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91	91
Entire body-Larvae	Кendall’s tau	0.69	0.628	0.598	0.58	0.817	0.553
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	80	80	80	80	80
Neck-Nymphs	Кendall’s tau	0.494
	P-value	<0.001
	n	80
Rest of the body-Nymphs	Кendall’s tau	0.23	0.306
	P-value	0.014	0.002
	n	80	91
Sternum & abdomen-Nymphs	Кendall’s tau	0.302	0.318	0.422
	P-value	0.001	0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91
Front legs-Nymphs	Кendall’s tau	0.456	0.39	0.276	0.347
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	0.003	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91
Hind legs-Nymphs	Кendall’s tau	0.408	0.441	0.272	0.391	0.527
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	0.005	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91	91
Entire body-Nymphs	Кendall’s tau	0.883	0.554	0.28	0.385	0.584	0.5
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	0.003	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	80	80	80	80	80
Neck-Females	Кendall’s tau	0.686
	P-value	<0.001
	n	80
Rest of the body-Females	Кendall’s tau	0.494	0.571
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91
Sternum & abdomen-Females	Кendall’s tau	0.254	0.359	0.337
	P-value	0.007	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91
Front legs-Females	Кendall’s tau	0.557	0.524	0.492	0.328
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91
Hind legs-Females	Кendall’s tau	0.474	0.5	0.372	0.334	0.505
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91	91
Entire body-Females	Кendall’s tau	0.764	0.818	0.532	0.407	0.671	0.606
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	80	80	80	80	80
Neck-Males	Кendall’s tau	0.663
	P-value	<0.001
	n	80
Rest of the body-Males	Кendall’s tau	0.552	0.559
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91
Sternum & abdomen-Males	Кendall’s tau	0.415	0.452	0.503
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91
Front legs-Males	Кendall’s tau	0.452	0.579	0.499	0.419
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91
Hind legs-Males	Кendall’s tau	0.416	0.505	0.478	0.381	0.436
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91	91
Entire body-Males	Кendall’s tau	0.749	0.851	0.577	0.553	0.587	0.559
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	80	80	79	80	80
Neck-Ticks	Кendall’s tau	0.673
	P-value	<0.001
	n	80
Rest of the body-Ticks	Кendall’s tau	0.52	0.61
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91
Sternum & abdomen-Ticks	Кendall’s tau	0.539	0.544	0.52
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91
Front legs-Ticks	Кendall’s tau	0.6	0.596	0.575	0.579
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91
Hind legs-Ticks	Кendall’s tau	0.593	0.64	0.495	0.571	0.615
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	91	91	91	91
Entire body-Ticks	Кendall’s tau	0.849	0.772	0.593	0.616	0.704	0.699
	P-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
	n	80	80	80	80	80	80

The strongest correlations between tick life stages on one body part and entire life stage burden are highlighted in bold