Diversity increases biomass production for trematode parasites in snails

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1652, 2008, Pages 2707-2714

  Hechinger, Ryan F ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Cerithidea californica; Diversity; Parasite communities; Parasitic castrators; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GUILD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TREMATODE;

CERITHIDEA CALIFORNICA; GASTROPODA; TREMATODA;

EID: 54249156941     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0875     Document Type: Article

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