Introduced species and their missing parasites

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6923, 2003, Pages 628-630

  Torchin, Mark E ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Dobson, Andrew P ^b   McKenzie, Valerie J ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

PARASITES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARASITISM; POPULATION DENSITY;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEA; FISH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MAMMAL; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CRUSTACEA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; REPTILIA;

EID: 0242464930     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01346     Document Type: Article

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