Data for: Cuckoos: The holy grail of avian biodiversity conservation?

This is the data belonging to the following publication: Haest B (2019) Cuckoos: The holy grail of avian biodiversity conservation? Ecological Indicators, 97, 59–66. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.10.007. These data consists of: (1) A collection of three R scripts that enable repetition of the simulations performed in the manuscript. (2) A dataset, slightly adjusted from: Morelli, F., Møller, A.P., Nelson, E., Benedetti, Y., Liang, W., Šímová, P., Moretti, M., Tryjanowski, P., 2017. The common cuckoo is an effective indicator of high bird species richness in Asia and Europe. Sci. Rep. 7, 4376. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04794-3