Importance of parasites and their life cycle characteristics in determining the structure of a large marine food web

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Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. (2006, background): “More recently, Thompson et al. (2005) explored the role of nine parasite species (as top predators) in a mudflat food web with 67 free-living species and broad categories for basal taxa.”
Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links (2008, background): “We suggest that researchers are on the verge of another step of significant improvement – the systematic inclusion of parasites in food-web data and analysis (Huxham et al. 1995; Thompson et al. 2005; Lafferty et al. 2006a).”
Trematode parasites of Otago Harbour (New Zealand) soft‐sediment intertidal ecosystems: Life cycles, ecological roles and DNA barcodes (2009, background): “These studies have also addressed the ecological impact of these trematodes on natural communities (e.g., mouritsen & Poulin 2005a,b; Thompson et al. 2005).”
Relating bird host distribution and spatial heterogeneity in trematode infections in an intertidal snail—from small to large scale (2006, background): “…parasitism was an overlooked biotic parameter, but its impact on host ecology is now widely accepted and has more recently been recognised as an important factor in the structure of animal communities and food webs (Minchella and Scott 1991; Mouritsen and Poulin 2002; Thompson et al. 2005).”