Ecology of helminth communities in tropical Australian amphibians

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 921-926

  Barton, Diane P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Australia; Community ecology; Depauperate fauna; Diversity; Helminth

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PARASITE; TAXONOMY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; FROG; HELMINTH; HOST; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; TOAD; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGY; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERMES;

EID: 0032815638     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(99)00057-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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