Fig. 6

Dynamics of trematode assemblages associated with the Czech population of Vanellus vanellus. (a) The rarefaction curves (red line; 95% confidence intervals in blue) of component communities in V. vanellus calculated only for the first sampling period (1963–1980), as there were no species acquired in later time periods (1981–2000, 2001–2020). Dynamics of changes in the number of trematode species per host individual (b), the total number of trematode species found (c), and the prevalence (d) and the intensity of infection ± SE (e). The data for the prevalence and the intensity of infection are shown as a heatmap; the prevalence is shown as a percent of infected hosts, with the color green assigned to the highest prevalence of the respective trematode species and white assigned to zero prevalence. A similar color code of the heatmap was used to visualize the intensity of infection; however, the entire color code scale of the intensity of infection is based on all fields within the heatmap.