Figure 3. Modeled univariate relationships (means and 95% confidence intervals) for the four most important moderators of effect size across all intensity data (top row), and prevalence data (bottom row). Results from mixed‐effects models are sorted by study traits. Interaction type: consumptive or non-consumptive. Parasite type: macroparasite or microparasite. Predator spreader identity: identified as a predator spreader or not. The dashed line represents no relationship between condition and infection.
Table 1. Enumeration of effect sizes categorized in nested subsets of key moderators.
Table 2. Ranking of mixed‐effects models (MEMs) predicting effect size for the effect of predators on parasites in the prevalence and intensity data. Models are ranked by ∆AICc with the number of parameters (k ), test statistic for the omnibus test of model coefficients (Q M ), estimated variance components (σi ), and Akaike weights (w i ). Only MEMs with ∆AICc ≤ 2 are shown.
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