Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover

As urban areas continue to expand globally, animal biodiversity is likely to experience altered habitat conditions, resource levels, and pathogen dynamics, with critical implications for insect pollinators. Specifically, local and regional land management may impact pollinator infectious disease prevalence, and this may be particularly relevant in urban garden systems where local food production depends on crop pollination. Further, because multi-host parasites can be spread across insect pollinator communities with varying impacts on host species, changes in pollinator community composition can lead to ‘amplification’ or ‘dilution’ effects, whereby increases in pollinator diversity could lead to higher or lower rates of parasitism, respectively. In this study, we investigate how urban garden management and regional landscape composition structure disease dynamics for a critical native pollinator, the bumble bee Bombus vosnesenskii. Parasite prevalence in our gardens was low in Nosema c..., , # Data from: Parasitism of urban bumble bees influenced by pollinator taxonomic richness, local garden management, and surrounding impervious cover

Description of the data file: `Ivers_etal_2022_UECO_1211_dataset.xlsx`

## Variables:

* ID - unique identifier for individual samples
* Infection - overall status of infection, presence of any parasite = 1, absence = 0
* Apicystis_A.bombi - Detection of Apicystis bombi; presence = 1, absence = 0
* Microsporidia - Detection of any microsporidian; presence = 1, absence = 0
* Trypanosomes - Detection of any trypanosome; presence = 1, absence = 0
* Trypanosomes_C.bombi - Detection of Crithidia bombi; presence = 1, absence = 0
* Garden = Unique site ID
* County = Regional site information
* NumBees - Total bee abundance from transect surveys
* NumBeeSpp - bee species richness from transect surveys
* NumPolls - Total pollinator abundance from transect surveys
* NumPollSpp - pollinator species richness from transect surveys
* NumFlowers - Total f...,