Bird predation alters infestation of desert lizards by parasitic mites

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 730-736

  Hawlena, Dror ^a   Abramsky, Zvika ^b   Bouskila, Amos ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIZARD; MITE; PREDATION RISK; SCRUB; SURVIVAL;

ACANTHODACTYLUS; ACARI; AVES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77952528531     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17804.x     Document Type: Article

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