Full_Code_andData_CannibalismMesocosms

This repository contains an R markdown file with statistical code and associated datasets for Goodnight and McCoy cannibalism mesocosm project 2020. Submitted to Ecology 2023. The Rmd file "Full_Code_CannibalismMesocosms" contains all statistical code, top models for each analysis, and base figure outputs for all analyses. File is separated into sections for each analysis: "Infection intensities and abundance models" ; "Cannibalism rate models" ; "Number of Nymphs surviving models" ; "Standard deviations of nymph body size by treatment" . Contents of each dataset are provided here and also outlined in the first section of the R markdown file. INITIAL_SIZES_1026.csv = initial size measurements of nymph hosts per mesocosm before the experiment sizes.csv = full main dataset. Size measurements of nymph hosts post-exeriment, plus all infection intensity data (cyst counts) per parasite species per host. Tank ID numbers and other relevant data (experimental days of setup/breakdown, date of dissection for each nymph, etc.) hali_only_withsizes.csv = subset of sizes.csv dataset with data from the tongueworm experiment only haem_only_withsizes.csv = subset of sizes.csv dataset with data from the lungworm experiment only varmean_all.csv = summed total parasite counts (abundance) by mesocosm for both experiments and all treatments, plus the size variance and mean metrics for nymph populations both at beginning and end of experiment