Helminth Community Structure and Pattern in Sympatric Populations of Double-Crested and Neotropic Cormorants

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 176-182

  Fedynich, Alan M ^a,c   Pence, Danny B ^a   Bergan, James F ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Component communities; Cormorants; Helminths; Phalacrocorax auritus; Phalacrocorax brasilianus

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742573072     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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