Interactions between population processes in a cyclic species: Parasites reduce autumn territorial behaviour of male red grouse

Oecologia

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 289-298

  Mougeot, Franccois ^a   Evans, Sharon A ^a   Redpath, Stephen M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Lagopus lagopus scoticus; Population regulation; Trichostrongylus tenuis; Unstable dynamics

Indexed keywords

LEVAMISOLE;

PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGE; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GALLIFORMES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; OBSERVATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERRITORIALITY; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; GALLIFORMES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LEVAMISOLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCOTLAND; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TERRITORIALITY; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

AVES; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; PHASIANIDAE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS;

EID: 23844441872     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0080-x     Document Type: Article

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