cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: "Research objective:
Parasite transmission can be altered via the removal of parasites by the ambient communities in which parasite–host interactions take place. However, the mechanisms driving parasite removal remain poorly understood. Using marine trematode cercariae as a model system, we investigated the effects of consumer and host body size on parasite removal rates. In laboratory experiments, the cercarial removal rates of five size categories of consumers (shrimps, crabs, oysters) or hosts (cockles) were determined. In addition, a sixth treatment without consumers or hosts served as a control to account for potential losses of cercariae due other factors and to test for the presence of an overall removal effect (control vs. size treatments).For more detail see publication."
authors:
  - family-names: Welsh
    given-names: J. (Jennifer)
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4272-6910"
  - family-names: Hempel
    given-names: A. (Anke)
  - family-names: Markovic
    given-names: M. (Mirjana)
  - family-names: van der Meer
    given-names: J. (Jaap)
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4818-2408"
  - family-names: Thieltges
    given-names: D.W. (David)
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0602-0101"
title: "Data presented in the paper "Consumer and host body size effects on the removal of trematode cercariae by ambient communities""
keywords:
version: 1
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.4121/uuid:63d2d5f0-a4bd-4a08-8f56-a76442423fe4
license: CC0
date-released: 2020-02-21