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Parasite community structure in sympatric Bornean primates [PDF]
, 2021 Parasites are important components of ecosystems, influencing trophic networks, competitive interactions and biodiversity patterns. Nonetheless, we are not nearly close to disentangling their complex roles in natural systems.
Chua, Tock Hing +15 more
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Ecology, 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
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Metazoan parasite communities of Leporinus macrocephalus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) in cultivation systems in the western Amazon, Brazil [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2017 In the Amazon, the growing demand for fish has been boosting the expansion of fish farms. However, the intensification of cultivation can generate disequilibrium in the parasite-host environment, predisposing fish to parasitic infections.
Williane M. de O. MARTINS +3 more
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High parasite diversity in the amphipod Gammarus lacustris in a subarctic lake
Ecology 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
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Food nutrient availability affects epibiont prevalence and richness in natural Daphnia populations
Limnology 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
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Oecologia, 1994 The number of monogenean gill parasite species associated with fish hosts of different sizes is evaluated for 35 host individuals of the West African cyprinid Labeo coubie. The length of host individuals explains 86% of the total variation in monogenean species richness among individuals. Larger hosts harbour more species than smaller ones.
/Guégan, Jean-François +1 more
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Ecology 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
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Host patch traits have scale‐dependent effects on diversity in a stickleback parasite metacommunity
Ecography, Volume 43, Issue 7, Page 990-1002, July 2020., 2020 Many metacommunities are distributed across habitat patches that are themselves aggregated into groups. Perhaps the clearest example of this nested metacommunity structure comes from multi‐species parasite assemblages, which occupy individual hosts that are aggregated into host populations. At both spatial scales, we expect parasite community diversity
Daniel I. Bolnick +4 more
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Parasite body volume and infracommunity patterns in the southern pomfret Brama australis (Pisces: Bramidae) [PDF]
Revista chilena de historia natural, 2002 The patterns of infracommunity descriptors (diversity, dominance, abundance) are compared when calculated with the number and body volume of the parasites in a sample of 26 southern pomfrets Brama australis collected in the area off Talcahuano, Chile.
GEORGE-NASCIMENTO, MARIO +2 more
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, 2018 Marine protected areas are considered a useful tool to preserve and recover the biodiversity of ecosystems. It is suggested that fisheries not only affect populations of target and bycatch species but also their parasite communities.
Orejas, C. (Covadonga) +5 more
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