Fig. 5

Parasitism and the dispersal kernel. a Dispersal kernel (fraction of hosts parasitized as a function of spatial position). The Diffuse and Clumped modalities having very similar distributions, the pooled distribution is shown, with bins of 30 cm (the distance between consecutive host patches in the Clumped modality). n = 5042 hosts. The continuous curves show the smoothed kernel (magenta) and the fitted Gaussian distribution (blue). b Pairwise correlations between movement (distance covered by the 98% population front), total parasitism, and dispersal coefficient. Each point is one replicate (n = 42 replicates). Spearman rank-correlations were used and the squared correlation coefficients are shown. Arrows have thickness proportional to ⍴² values