Pan-European database for pathogenic microbial taxa in birds and bats

The spatially extensive multidimensional database of the prevalence of
pathogenic microbial taxa for humans and wildlife in birds and bats was
compiled by systematically reviewing publications for 121 pathogenic taxa.
It covered pathogenic taxa mostly at the genus level (species level for
most of the viruses), including sampling from ~450,000 host individuals of
376 bird species and 39 bat species.  Data S1. Taxonomic details
of the covered bird and bat species and pathogen prevalence of the most
studied pathogenic microbial taxa in these host species.  Data
S2. Taxonomic details and sample sizes of the covered pathogenic microbial
taxa. Data S3. Pan-European database for pathogenic microbial taxa from
systematic review. Data S4. Input data for modelling. The filtered dataset
follows the protocol illustrated in “Database quality control” of Methods
in the corresponding article. Because the database includes endangered
species that were listed by the IUCN as anything from Threatened or more
severe, the geographical coordinates in the datasets were required by the
platform to be masked as numbers with a scale of 1. The finer resolution
coordinates (with a scale of 4) can be requested by contacting the
corresponding author: Yanjie Xu ([e-mail] or
[e-mail]). The comprehensive methods about the data
collection and database quality control are illustrated in the
corresponding article. Xu, Y., Poosakkannu, A., Suominen, K.M., Laine
V.N., Lilley T.M., Pulliainen A.T. & Lehikoinen, A. (2023).
Continental-scale climatic gradients of pathogenic microbial taxa in birds
and bats. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06783