Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes - Rilegato

Esch, Gerald W.; Bush, Albert O.

 
9780412335402: Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes

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From an American Society of Parasitologists symposium held in Aug. 1988 at Wake Forest U. Taking examples from many hosts, including mollusks, marine and freshwater fish, amphibia, reptiles, birds, and mammals, these papers show how parasitic communities are influenced by a multitude of biotic and abiotic factors. They examine how these factors affect the transmission dynamics of helminth parasites. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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1 Patterns and processes in helminth parasite communities: an overview.- 2 Host populations as resources defining parasite community organization.- 3 Spatial scale and the processes structuring a guild of larval trematode parasites.- 4 Guild structure of larval trematodes in molluscan hosts: prevalence, dominance and significance in competition.- 5 Helminth communities in marine fishes.- 6 Helminth communities in freshwater fish: structured communities of stochastic assemblages?.- 7 Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles: comparative approaches to understanding patterns and processes.- 8 Helminth communities in avian hosts: determinants of pattern.- 9 Helminth community of mammalian hosts: concepts at the infracommunity, component and compound community levels.- 10 Models for multi-species parasite-host communities.- 11 Free-living communities and alimentary tract helminths: hypotheses and pattern analyses.- 12 Concluding remarks.

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ISBN 10:  9401068631 ISBN 13:  9789401068635
Casa editrice: Springer, 2013
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