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

Methods
The comprehensive methods about the data collection and database quality control was 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