Climate warming may cause a parasite-induced collapse in coastal amphipod populations

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 476-483

  Mouritsen, Kim N ^a   Tompkins, Daniel M ^b   Poulin, Robert ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corophium volutator; Local extinction; Maritrema subdolum; Parasite transmission; Temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PARASITISM; POPULATION DECLINE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PARASITES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIPODA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; MARITREMA SUBDOLUM; MICROPHALLIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 27544457224     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0223-0     Document Type: Article

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