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Stable Isotopes and Parasites Indicate Feeding Ecology in Florida, USA, Wading Birds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
We assessed δ13C and δ15N profiles and endoparasite community composition in Great Egrets (Ardea alba), Great Blue Herons (A. herodias), and White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) from four wildlife rescue centers (two mainland, two on islands in the Florida Keys)
Gumbleton, Sarah E   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Diversity of helminth parasites of eight siluriform fishes from the Aguapeí River, upper Paraná basin, São Paulo state, Brazil

open access: yesInternational Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020
Fishes of the order Siluriformes, known as catfishes, have a global distribution with more than 3,600 valid species of which 2,087 occur in the Neotropical region.
Aline A. Acosta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scale‐dependent effects of host patch traits on species composition in a stickleback parasite metacommunity

open access: yesEcology, Volume 101, Issue 12, December 2020., 2020
Abstract A core goal of ecology is to understand the abiotic and biotic variables that regulate species distributions and community composition. A major obstacle is that the rules governing species distributions can change with spatial scale. Here, we illustrate this point using data from a spatially nested metacommunity of parasites infecting a ...
Daniel I. Bolnick   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ontogenetic Variation in Parasite infracommunities of the Clingfish Sicyases sanguineus (Pisces: Gobiesocidae)

open access: yesJournal of Parasitology, 2011
This study analyzed the variation of the parasite infracommunities and their relationship with the diet and spatial distribution of the clingfish Sicyases sanguineus during its ontogeny. In total, 154 clingfish were collected from the intertidal and the upper subtidal zone of Pacific Ocean along the central Chilean coast. A wide range in body length (1.
Munoz, Gabriela, Zamora, Leonardo
openaire   +4 more sources

Community structure of the helminths of Lithobates spectabilis (Anura: Ranidae) from two localities in the Biosphere Reserve Barranca de Metztitlán, Hidalgo, Mexico

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2023
The helminth community of Lithobates spectabilis (n =77) was studied from Las Pilas (low altitude) and Metznoxtla (high altitude), Biosphere Reserve Barranca de Metztitlán, Hidalgo, Mexico.
Edgar Salvador Ramírez-Cruz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

High parasite diversity in the amphipod Gammarus lacustris in a subarctic lake

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 21, Page 12385-12394, November 2020., 2020
We set out to identify and quantify the parasite community of Gammarus lacustris to understand the contributions of the amphipod and its parasites to the Takvatn food web. We identified seven parasite taxa: a direct life cycle gregarine, Rotundula sp., and larval stages of two digenean trematode genera, two cestodes, one nematode, and one ...
Jenny C. Shaw   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metazoan parasite infracommunities of the dusky flounder (Syacium papillosum) as bioindicators of environmental conditions in the continental shelf of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2019
Background We assessed metrics of the metazoan parasite infracommunities of the dusky flounder (Syacium papillosum) as indicators of aquatic environmental health of the Yucatan Shelf (YS) prior to oil extraction.
Víctor M. Vidal-Martínez   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food nutrient availability affects epibiont prevalence and richness in natural Daphnia populations

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography, Volume 65, Issue 10, Page 2529-2540, October 2020., 2020
Abstract The increased input of nutrients into biological systems has been shown to result in altered biotic interactions through changes in food availability. The aim of this study was to test for an association between phytoplankton nutrient content and epibiont variables in natural zooplankton populations.
Lien Reyserhove   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supplementary Information 2 from Parasite diversity and ecology in a model species, the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) in Trinidad

open access: yes, 2020
Supplementary Table S1; Individual infection infracommunity data for each male guppy.
Paul Bentzen (235205)   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Competition from sea to mountain: Interactions and aggregation in low‐diversity monogenean and endohelminth communities in twospot livebearer Pseudoxiphophorus bimaculatus (Teleostei: Poeciliidae) populations in a neotropical river

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 17, Page 9115-9131, September 2020., 2020
The results of this work suggest that interspecific competition can occur in species‐poor, nonsaturated communities among specialist dominant species. Our analyses suggest also that aggregation is an important factor to determine local richness of parasites in fish populations and that intraspecific aggregation allows the coexistence of species in the ...
Guillermo Salgado‐Maldonado   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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