Reef fishes have higher parasite richness at unfished palmyra atoll compared to fished kiritimati island

EcoHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-345

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Shaw, Jenny C ^a   Kuris, Armand M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biodiversity; Fishing; Key words: parasites; Line Islands; Richness

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CESTODE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; ENDOPARASITE; FISH; FISHING; FOOD WEB; HEALTH SURVEY; HELMINTH; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ECOSYSTEM; FISH DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PARASITOLOGY;

ACANTHOCEPHALA (WORMS); ACANTHURUS NIGRICANS; ANTHOZOA; ARTHROPODA; CESTODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CHROMIS MARGARITIFER; COPEPODA; LUTJANUS BOHAR; MONOGENEA; NEMATODA; PALMYRA; PARACIRRHITES ARCATUS; PISCES; PLECTROGLYPHIDODON DICKII; VERMES;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; ECOSYSTEM; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HELMINTHS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL;

EID: 64049089090     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-008-0196-7     Document Type: Article

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