Controls of spatial variation in the prevalence of trematode parasites infecting a marine snail

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 439-451

  Byers, James E ^a   Blakeslee, April M H ^a   Linder, Ernst ^b   Cooper, Andrew B ^a   Maguire, Timothy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Cryptocotyle lingua; Dispersal; Environmental forcing; Hierarchical models; Larus argentatus; Littorina littorea; Macroecology; Nested spatially explicit analyses; Reversiblejump Markov chain Monte Carlo; Rocky intertidal zone

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLATWORM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MACROECOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROCKY SHORE; SEABIRD; SNAIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SEA; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CRYPTOCOTYLE LINGUA; GASTROPODA; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LITTORINA LITTOREA; TREMATODA;

EID: 42249112495     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1036.1     Document Type: Article

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