Host_masses_mammals

Two files contain information about the mass of cestode definitive hosts, "Host_masses_birds" and "Host_masses_mammals". For each cestode species, known hosts are listed with their mass. The mass of birds was taken from Dunning (1992). The mass of mammals from Smith et al. (2003) The average host size for each cestode is calculated. The host lists for cestodes in piscivorous birds were given by Ryzhikov et al. (1985). The host lists for cestodes in mammals were taken from the references from which size data were collected (see file "Host_size_regression.csv")