Assessing Variation in the Individual-Level Impacts of a Multihost Pathogen

Figure 4

Free-living Sarcoptes scabiei host species (27) plotted against the average impact score (AIS) for S. scabiei impacts, with conservative criteria applied and the average range of AIS also shown. Plotted to the right are variables used in the creation of the conservative rank (cf. Table 1): average sample size per Impact (log + 1), average confidence in standardisation per impact scores, total S. scabiei impacts assessed per species (in light grey, impacts that were standardised into binary data, and in dark grey, impacts standardised into interval data), and studies used per species.