Host diversity begets parasite diversity: Bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1567, 2005, Pages 1059-1066

  Hechinger, Ryan F ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerithidea californica; Community structure; Diversity; Parasites; Recruitment; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEFINITIVE HOST; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST;

ARTICLE; BIRD; HABITAT QUALITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREMATODE; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CERITHIDEA CALIFORNICA; GASTROPODA; METAZOA; TREMATODA;

EID: 21744432478     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3070     Document Type: Article

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