List of works by David W. Thieltges

Alien parasitic copepods in mussels and oysters of the Wadden Sea

article published in 2010

Are aliens threatening European aquatic coastal ecosystems?

Benefit from an invader: American slipper limpet Crepidula fornicatareduces star fish predation on basibiont European mussels

Biological invasions and host-parasite coevolution: different coevolutionary trajectories along separate parasite invasion fronts

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Climate change and parasite transmission: how temperature affects parasite infectivity via predation on infective stages

article

Collateral diseases: Aquaculture impacts on wildlife infections

scientific article published in 2020

Consumer and host body size effects on the removal of trematode cercariae by ambient communities

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Cross-species comparison of parasite richness, prevalence, and intensity in a native compared to two invasive brachyuran crabs

article

Cryptic invasion of a parasitic copepod: Compromised identification when morphologically similar invaders co-occur in invaded ecosystems.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Disentangling phylogenetic constraints from selective forces in the evolution of trematode transmission stages

article

Distance decay of similarity among parasite communities of three marine invertebrate hosts

scientific article

Ecology and evolution of marine parasites and diseases: International NIOZ–AWI symposium, 10–14 March 2014, Texel, The Netherlands

Editorial

Effect of dose and frequency of exposure to infectious stages on trematode infection intensity and success in mussels.

scientific article published on July 2017

Effect of predation risk on parasite transmission from first to second intermediate trematode hosts

scientific article published in 2023

Effect of temperature on emergence, survival and infectivity of cercariae of the marine trematode Renicola roscovita (Digenea: Renicolidae)

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Effects of first intermediate host density, host size and salinity on trematode infections in mussels of the south-western Baltic Sea

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

First record of the endoparasitic isopod Portunion maenadis (Giard, 1886) (Epicaridea: Entoniscidae) in shore crabs in the Wadden Sea and a review of its distribution in Europe

scientific article published in 2019

Global invasion genetics of two parasitic copepods infecting marine bivalves

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

High prevalences of disseminated neoplasia in the Baltic tellin Limecola balthica in the Wadden Sea

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Host diversity and latitude drive trematode diversity patterns in the European freshwater fauna

article published in 2011

How bad are invaders in coastal waters? The case of the American slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata in western Europe

article published in 2006

How invasive oysters can affect parasite infection patterns in native mussels on a large spatial scale.

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Impact of the invasive parasitic copepod Mytilicola orientalis on native blue mussels Mytilus edulis in the western European Wadden Sea

scientific article published in 2018

Introduced marine ecosystem engineer indirectly affects parasitism in native mussel hosts

Introduced species in a tidal ecosystem of mud and sand: curse or blessing?

scientific article published on 10 January 2023

Invaders interfere with native parasite–host interactions

Lessepsian migration and parasitism: richness, prevalence and intensity of parasites in the invasive fish compared to its native congener in Tunisian coastal waters

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

Marine virus predation by non-host organisms

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Mechanism of an epibiont burden: Crepidula fornicata increases byssus thread production by Mytilus edulis

article

Micro- and macroparasite species richness in birds: The role of host life history and ecology

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Migration and parasitism: habitat use, not migration distance, influences helminth species richness in Charadriiform birds

Parasite effects on host’s trophic and isotopic niches

scientific article published in 2023

Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity

scientific article

Parasites and marine invasions: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives

Parasites and stable isotopes: a comparative analysis of isotopic discrimination in parasitic trophic interactions

scientific article published in 2019

Parasites as prey: the effect of cercarial density and alternative prey on consumption of cercariae by four non-host species

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

scientific article published on June 2008

Parasites in the Wadden Sea food web

Parasites in the northern Wadden Sea: a conservative ecosystem component over 4 decades

article by David W. Thieltges et al published 24 November 2007 in Helgoland Marine Research

Phylogeny determines the role of helminth parasites in intertidal food webs

scientific article

Prey preferences of invasive (<i>Hemigrapsus sanguineus</i>, <i>H. takanoi</i>) and native (<i>Carcinus maenas</i>) intertidal crabs in the European Wadden Sea

scientific article published in 2021

Prey size selection in invasive (Hemigrapsus sanguineus and H. takanoi) compared with native (Carcinus maenas) marine crabs

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Range size patterns in European freshwater trematodes

scientific article published in 2011

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Pacific Oyster Hemolymph Microbiota across Multiple Scales

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Spatial heterogeneity in parasite infections at different spatial scales in an intertidal bivalve

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

Spillover but no spillback of two invasive parasitic copepods from invasive Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) to native bivalve hosts

Spread of the invasive shell-boring annelid Polydora websteri (Polychaeta, Spionidae) into naturalised oyster reefs in the European Wadden Sea

scientific article published on 5 August 2020

The comparative ecology and biogeography of parasites

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2011)

Too cold to prosper—winter mortality prevents population increase of the introduced American slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata in northern Europe

article

Trematode infection causes malformations and population effects in a declining New Zealand fish

scientific article

Trophic relationship between the invasive parasitic copepod Mytilicola orientalis and its native blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) host.

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Vicious circle in the intertidal: Facilitation between barnacle epibionts, a shell boring polychaete and trematode parasites in the periwinkle Littorina littorea

scientific article published in 2007

Wadden Sea mussel beds invaded by oysters and slipper limpets: competition or climate control?

article

When parasites become prey: ecological and epidemiological significance of eating parasites.

scientific article published on 23 February 2010