The influence of a parasite community on the dynamics of a host population: A longitudinal study on willow ptarmigan and their parasites

Oikos

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 377-391

  Holmstad, P R ^a   Hudson, P J ^b   Skorping, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORTALITY; PARASITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

CESTODA; EUKARYOTA; HYMENOLEPIS (CESTODA); HYMENOLEPIS MICROPS; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; RODENTIA; SALIX; SPLENDIDOFILARIA PAPILLOCERCA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS TENUIS;

EID: 28044450593     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13640.x     Document Type: Article

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