Data and R code for "Functional traits explain waterbirds’ host status, subtype richness, and community-level infection risk for avian influenza"

Species functional traits can influence several processes of pathogen transmission and, consequently, affect species’ host status, pathogen diversity, and community-level infection risk. In this study, we investigated, for 143 European waterbird species, the effects of functional traits on host status and pathogen diversity (subtype richness) for the avian influenza virus at the species level. We also explored the association between functional diversity and HPAI H5Nx occurrence at the community level for the 2016/17 and 2021/22 epidemics. This dataset contains datasets and R code files to replicate our analysis and results. Supplementary Dataset 1 is the data to replicate our analysis for host status and pathogen diversity (subtype richness) at the species level. Supplementary Dataset 2 is the data to replicate the analysis for the association between functional diversity and HPAI H5Nx occurrence at the community level. Supplementary Datasets 3 and 4 are the description data for Figure 1B and Figure 3 in the manuscript. Supplementary Codes 1 to 5 contain the R code to reproduce the analysis and figures. Supplementary phylogenetic birdtree contains the Hackett backbone phylogenetic tree of avian species.