Patterns of association, nestedness, and species co-occurrence of helminth parasites in the greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, and the Etosha National Park, Namibia

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 899-907

  Fellis, K Joel ^a   Negovetich, N J ^a   Esch, G W ^a   Horak, I G ^a,b   Boomker, J ^a,b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; ORDINATION; PARASITOLOGY; UNGULATE;

BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HELMINTH; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAGELAPHUS STREPSICEROS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; MALE; NAMIBIA; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; ETOSHA NATIONAL PARK; KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; NAMIBIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CESTODA; TRAGELAPHUS; TRAGELAPHUS STREPSICEROS; TREMATODA; UNGULATA; VERMES;

EID: 0345714976     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3189     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (41)

1. ATMAR, W., AND B. D. PATTERSON. 1993. The measure of order and disorder in the distribution of species in fragmented habitat. Oecologia 96: 373-382.
2. -, AND -. 1995. Nested temperature calculator: A visual basic program, including 294 presence absence matrices. AICS Research, University Park, NM and The Field Museum Chicago, Illinois.
3. BAILEY, J. K., AND T. G. WHITHAM. 2002. Interactions among fire, aspen, and elk affect insect diversity: Reversal of a community response. Ecology 83: 1701-1712.
4. BARGER, M. A., AND G. W. ESCH. 2001. Downstream changes in the composition of fishes in an Appalachian stream. Journal of Parasitology 87: 250-255.
5. BOOMKER, J. 1982. Cooperia acutispiculum n. sp. (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae) from the kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas, 1766). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 49: 95-97.
6. -. 1991. A comparative study of the helminth fauna of browsing antelope of South Africa. D.V.Sc. Thesis. Medical University of Southern Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 297 p.
7. -, I. G. HORAK, AND D. G. BOOYSE. 1997. Parasites of South African wildlife. XV. Helminths of scrub hares, Lepus saxatilis in the Kruger National Park. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 64: 285-290.
8. -, -, AND V. DE VOS. 1986. The helminth parasites of various artiodactylids from some South African nature reserves. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 53: 21-24.
9. -, -, AND -. 1989. Parasites of South African wildlife. IV. Helminths of kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, in the Kruger National Park. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 56: 111-121.
10. -, -, AND M. M. KNIGHT. 1991. Parasites of South African wildlife. IX. Helminths of kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, in the eastern Cape Province. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 58: 203-204.
11. BROWN, J. H., AND M. V. LOMILINO. 1998. Biogeography, 2nd ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland. Massachusetts, 691 p.
12. DIAMOND, J. 1975. Assembly of species communities. In Ecology and evolution of communities, M. L. Cody and J. M. Diamond (eds.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p. 342-444.
13. ESCH, G. W., AND J. C. FERNANDEZ. 1993. A functional biology of parasitism: Ecological and evolutionary implications. Chapman and Hall, New York, 337 p.
14. FERNANDEZ-JURICIC, E. 2002. Can human disturbance promote nestedness? A case study with breeding birds in urban habitat fragments. Oecologia 131: 269-278.
15. FISHER, J., AND D. B. LINDEMAYER. 2002. Treating the nestedness temperature calculator as a "black box" can lead to false conclusions. Oikos 99: 193-199.
16. GOTELLI, N. J. 2000. Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns. Ecology 81: 2606-2621.
17. -. 2001. Research frontiers in null model analysis. Global ecology and biogeography 10: 337-343.
18. -, AND G. L. ENTSMINGER. 1999. EcoSim: Null model software for ecology, version 4.0. Acquired Intelligence and Kesey-Bear.
19. -, AND D. J. MCCABE. 2002. Species co-occurrence: A meta-analysis of J.M. Diamond's assembly rules model. Ecology 83: 2091-2096.
20. -, AND K. ROHDE. 2002. Co-occurrence of ectoparasites of marine fishes: A null model analysis. Ecology Letters 5: 86-94.
21. GOÜY DE BELLOCQ, J., S. MORAND, AND C. FELIU. 2002. Patterns of parasite species richness of Western Palaearctic micro-mammals: Island effects. Ecography 25: 173-183.
22. GRENFELL, B. T., K. WILSON, V. S. ISHAM, H. E. G. BOYD, AND K. DIETZ. 1995. Modelling patterns of parasite aggregation in natural populations: Trichostrongylid nematode-ruminant interactions as a case study. Parasitology (Suppl.) 111: S135-S151.
23. GUÉGAN, J. F., AND B. HUGUENY. 1994. A nested parasite species subset pattern in tropical fish: Host as major determinant of parasite infracommunity structure. Oecologia 100: 184-189.
24. HORAK, I. G. 1980. The incidence of helminths in pigs, sheep, cattle, impala and blesbok in the Transvaal. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, 201 p.
25. -, V. DE VOS, AND M. R. BROWN. 1983. Parasites of domestic and wild animals in South Africa. XVI. Helminth and arthropod parasites of blue and black wildebeest (Coonochaetes taurinus and Connochaetes gnou). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 50: 243-255.
26. JANOVY, J. JR. 2002. Concurrent infections and the community ecology of helminth parasites. Journal of Parasitology 88: 440-445.
27. LEWIN, R. 1983. Santa Rosalia was a goat. Science 221: 636-639.
28. MCCUNE, B., AND M. J. MEDFORD. 1999. PC-ORD. Multivariate analysis of ecological data, version 4. MJM Software Design, Glendale Beach, Oregon, 237 p.
29. MONCOL, D. J., AND M. J. GRICE. 1974. Transmammary passage of Strongyloides papillosus in the goat and sheep. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 41: 1-4.
30. MÖNNIG, H. O. 1932. Wild antelope as carriers of nematode parasites of vertebrates. Part II. 18th report of the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry. Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, South Africa, p. 153-172.
31. OWEN-SMITH, N., AND S. M. COOPER. 1987. Palatability of woody plants to browsing ruminants in a South African savannah. Ecology 68: 319-331.
32. PATTERSON, B. D., AND W. ATMAR. 1986. Nested subsets and the structure of insular mammalian faunas and archipelagos. Biolological Journal of the Linnean Society 28: 65-82.
33. PIELOU, D. P., AND E. C. PIELOU. 1968. Association among species of infrequent occurrence: The insect and spider fauna of Polyporus betulinus (Bulliard) Fries. Journal of Theoretical Biology 21: 202-216.
34. POULIN, R. 1997. Species richness of parasite assemblages: Evolution and patterns. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 28: 341-358.
35. -, AND E. T. VALTONEN. 2001. Nested assemblages resulting from host size variation: The case of the endoparasite communities in fish hosts. International Journal for Parasitology 31: 1194-1204.
36. REINECKE, R. K. 1983. Veterinary helminthology. Butterworths, Durban, South Africa, 392 p.
37. ROBERTS, M. G., A. P. DOBSON, P. ARENBERG, G. A. DE LEO, R. C. KRECK, M. T. MANFREDI, P. LANFRANCHI, AND E. ZAFFARONI. 2002. Parasite community ecology and biodiversity. In The ecology of wildlife diseases, P. J. Hudson, A. Rizzoli, B. T. Grenfell, H. Heesterbeek, A. P. Dobson (eds.). Oxford University Press, New York, p. 63-82.
38. SIMBERLOFF, D., AND J. L. MARTIN. 1991. Nestedness of insular avifaunas: Simple summary statistics masking complex species patterns. Ornis Fennica 68: 178-192.
39. ŠIMKOVÁ, A., M. GELNAR, AND S. MORAND. 2001. Order and disorder in ectoparasite communities: The case of congeneric gill monogeneans (Dactylogyrus spp.). International Journal for Parasitology 31: 1205-1210.
40. SIMMONS, R. E. 1996. Population declines, viable breeding areas, and management options for flamingos in southern Africa. Conservation Biology 10: 504-514.
41. STONE, L., AND A. ROBERTS. 1990. The checkerboard score and species distributions. Oecologia 85: 74-79.