Anthropogenic landscape alteration promotes higher disease risk in wild New Zealand avian communities

Antoine Filion; Lucas Deschamps; Chris N. Niebuhr; Robert Poulin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0265568

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Anthropogenic landscape alteration promotes higher disease risk in wild New Zealand avian communities

Antoine Filion ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: afilion90@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1198-3017

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Lucas Deschamps,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivières (Québec), Canada
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Chris N. Niebuhr,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8892-3605

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Robert Poulin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Anthropogenic landscape alteration promotes higher disease risk in wild New Zealand avian communities

Antoine Filion,
Lucas Deschamps,
Chris N. Niebuhr,
Robert Poulin

Published: March 25, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265568

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Incorrect scientific name for Brown Creeper

Posted by PGHFrost on 31 Mar 2022 at 10:08 GMT

Fig. 2 lists a species, Certhia americana, among those species sampled for the incidence of avian malaria during this study. This species does not occur in New Zealand. The mix-up comes because Certhia americana is called Brown Creeper in North America, whereas the New Zealand 'Brown Creeper' or 'Pipipi' is Mohoua novaeseelandiae, one of three species of the endemic New Zealand family, Mohouidae. Presumably Mohoua novaeseelandiae was the species sampled in this study.

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Incorrect scientific name for Brown Creeper

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