Table 4.

Abundance of haemoparasite by year, site, sex and age class

	Species richness	B.microti	Bartonella spp.	Haemobartonella spp.	H. erhardovae	T. evotomys
Year
1999	1.75 ± 0.088	0.72 ± 0.715	67.7 ± 22.52	7.0 ± 1.14	6.7 ± 1.24	8.8 ± 2.44
2002	1.69 ± 0.068	0.16 ±0.054	26.7 ±7.67	7.2 ± 1.02	4.3 ± 0.49	7.0 ± 2.64
2006	1.87 ± 0.058	0.06 ±0.026	50.2 ± 16.27	20.8 ± 2.52	2.1 ± 0.36	6.9 ± 2.00
2010	1.66 ± 0.066	0.05 ± 0.043	24.7 ± 5.09	11.3 ± 0.97	1.5 ± 0.28	4.7 ± 1.25
Site
Urwitałt	1.80 ± 0.058	0.11 ± 0.047	30.8 ± 8.54	10.0 ± 1.04	3.2 ± 0.39	11.1 ± 2.31
Tałty	1.83 ± 0.059	0.06 ± 0.025	46.4 ± 13.86	13.4 ± 1.57	3.5 ± 0.56	3.9 ± 0.91
Pilchy	1.58 ± 0.059	0.40 ± 0.343	42.4 ± 11.69	15.0 ± 2.17	2.7 ± 0.40	4.3 ± 1.87
Sex
Males	1.72 ± 0.049	0.11 ± 0.036	30.3 ± 6.43	9.6 ± 1.06	3.2 ± 0.41	8.4 ± 1.77
Females	1.78 ± 0.047	0.25 ± 0.220	50.1 ± 12.06	16.1 ± 1.54	3.0 ± 0.33	4.6 ± 1.01
Agea
Class 1	1.80 ± 0.060	0.06 ± 0.031	69.3 ± 19.71	20.5 ± 2.52	2.6 ± 0.43	6.7 ± 2.33
Class 2	1.74 ± 0.055	0.33 ± 0.284	34.5 ± 8.56	8.1 ± 0.80	3.0 ± 0.35	7.0 ± 1.77
Class 3	1.72 ±0.062	0.11 ± 0.043	21.4 ± 5.14	11.3 ± 1.42	3.7 ± 0.55	6.1 ± 1.45

Significant main effects are highlighted in bold, but see text for further details

^aThe voles were allocated to three age classes, see legend to Table 3 for more information