Intertidal Snail and Trematode Parasite Survey Data from a Bay of Fundy Mudflat

Field survey data records the presence of two intertidal snail species and their trematode parasites at a focal mudflat in the Bay of Fundy. The data was contributed by author Janet Koprivnikar and was last updated in May 2026. The dataset likely contains observations of species presence across microhabitats and seasons.

Use Cases

• Modeling host-parasite co-occurrence based on field survey observations.
• Analyzing seasonal variation in trematode infection rates mentioned in the description.
• Studying microhabitat preferences of intertidal snail species.
• Investigating ecological drivers of parasite distribution in mudflat environments.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a specific, well-defined ecological system: a Bay of Fundy mudflat.
• The description explicitly mentions coverage of seasonal variation, providing a temporal dimension.
• The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-02, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• The geographic scope is limited to a single focal mudflat.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Field survey

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 04:10:44.

Geography

Bay of Fundy mudflat