Can parasites be indicators of free-living diversity? Relationships between species richness and the abundance of larval trematodes and of local benthos and fishes

Oecologia

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-92

  Hechinger, Ryan F ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a,b   Huspeni, Todd C ^a,c   Brooks, Andrew J ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cerithidea californica; Estuaries; Indicators; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; FISH; FLATWORM; HOST; LARVA; PARASITE; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; MEXICO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREMATODE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; LINEAR MODELS; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CERITHIDEA CALIFORNICA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PISCES; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846593934     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0568-z     Document Type: Article

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