Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in recruitment of larval parasites to shore crab intermediate hosts: The influence of shorebird definitive hosts

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1282-1291

  Latham, A David M ^a   Poulin, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH KINETICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANIMAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; INFECTIONS; PARASITES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACANTHOCEPHALUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; HEMIGRAPSUS; MACROPHTHALMUS; OCYPODIDAE; VARUNIDAE;

EID: 0344496143     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z03-118     Document Type: Article

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