Friendly competition: Evidence for a dilution effect among competitors in a planktonic host-parasite system

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 791-801

  Hall, Spencer R ^a   Becker, Claes R ^a   Simonis, Joseph L ^b   Duffy, Meghan A ^c   Tessier, Alan J ^d   Cáceres, Carla E ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Daphnia metschnikowia; Dilution effect; Disease transmission; Host parasite; Lake plankton; Multivariate autoregressive (MAR) time series models; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRUSTACEAN; DILUTION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FUNGUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PLANKTON; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TIME; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; ZOOPLANKTON;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA DENTIFERA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; DAPHNIA RETROCURVA; FUNGI; METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA; PULICARIA;

EID: 58249098100     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0838.1     Document Type: Article

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