Predator dietary response to prey density variation and consequences for cestode transmission

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-139

  Raoul, Francis ^a   Deplazes, Peter ^b   Rieffel, Dominique ^a   Lambert, Jean Claude ^a   Giraudoux, Patrick ^a  

^a University of Franche Comté   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arvicola terrestris; Contamination response; Microtus arvalis; Parasite; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEFINITIVE HOST; FLATWORM; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOX; FRANCE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOXES; FRANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

FRANCE;

ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; RODENTIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 77955773928     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1647-8     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Al-Sabi MNS, Kapel CMO, Webster P, Deplazes P (2008) Reduced egg production of Echinococcus multilocularis in experimentally infected and re-infected red foxes (Vulpes vulpes). Vet Parasitol 155: 59-66.
2. Amundsen P-A, Knudsen R, Kuris AM, Kristoffersen R (2003) Seasonal and ontogenetic dynamics in trophic transmission of parasites. Oikos 102: 285-293.
3. Artois M, Stahl P (1991) Absence of dietary response in the fox Vulpes vulpes to variations in the abundance of rodents in Lorraine. In: Bobek B, Perzanowski K, Regelin W (eds) 18th IUGB Congress, 1987. Swiat, Krakow-Warszawa, Krakow.
4. Bartel RA, Knowlton FF (2005) Functional feeding responses of coyotes, Canis latrans, to fluctuating prey abundance in the Curlew Valley, Utah, 1977-1993. Can J Zool 83: 569-578.
5. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (2002) Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach, 2nd edn. Springer, Berlin.
6. Combes C (2001) Parasitism. Ecology and evolution of intimate interactions. Chicago University Press, Chicago.
7. Delattre P, Pascal M, Lepesteur MH, Giraudoux P, Damange JP (1988) Ecological and epidemiological characteristics of Echinococcus multilocularis during a complete population cycle in a secondary host (Microtus arvalis). Can J Zool 66: 2740-2750.
8. Delattre P, De Sousa B, Fichet E, Quéré JP, Giraudoux P (1999) Vole outbreaks in a landscape context: evidence from a six year study of Microtus arvalis. Landsc Ecol 14: 401-412.
9. Delibes-Mateos M, De Fernandez Simon J, Villafuerte R, Ferreras P (2008) Feeding responses of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) to different wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) densities: a regional approach. Eur J Wildl Res 54: 71-78.
10. Dell'Arte GL, Laaksonen T, Norrdahl K, Korpimaki E (2007) Variation in the diet composition of a generalist predator, the red fox, in relation to season and density of main prey. Acta Oecol 31: 276-281.
11. Deplazes P, Dinkel A, Mathis A (2003) Molecular tools for studies on the transmission biology of Echinococcus multilocularis. Parasitology 127: S53-S61.
12. Dobson A (2004) Population dynamics of pathogens with multiple host species. Am Nat 164: S64-S78.
13. Dupuy G, Giraudoux P, Delattre P (2009) Numerical and dietary responses of a predator community in a temperate zone of Europe. Ecography 32: 277-290.
14. Eckert J, Deplazes P (2004) Biological, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of echinococcosis, a zoonosis of increasing concern. Clin Microbiol Rev 17: 107-135.
15. Eckert J, Gottstein B, Heath D, Liu FJ (2001) Prevention of echinococcosis in humans and safety precautions. In: Eckert J, Gemmell MA, Meslin FX, Pawlowski ZS (eds) WHO/OIE Manual on echinococcosis in humans and animals: a public health problem of global concern. WHO/OIE, Paris, pp 238-247.
16. Ferrari N, Weber JM (1995) Influence of the abundance of food resources on the feeding habits of the red fox, Vulpes vulpes, in western Switzerland. J Zool 236: 117-129.
17. Gilg O, Sittler B, Sabard B, Hurstel B, Sane R, Delattre P, Hanski L (2006) Functional and numerical responses of four lemming predators in high arctic Greenland. Oikos 113: 193-216.
18. Giraudoux P (1991) Utilisation de l'espace par les hôtes du ténia multiloculaire (Echinococcus multilocularis): conséquences épidémiologiques. PhD dissertation, University of Burgundy, Dijon.
19. Giraudoux P, Delattre P, Quéré JP, Damange JP (1994) Structure and kinetics of rodent populations in a region under agricultural land abandonment. Acta Oecol 15: 385-400.
20. Giraudoux P, Pradier B, Delattre P, Deblay S, Salvi D, Defaut R (1995) Estimation of water vole abundance by using surface indices. Acta Theriol 40: 77-96.
21. Giraudoux P, Delattre P, Habert M, Quéré JP, Deblay S, Defaut R, Duhamel R, Moissenet MF, Salvi D, Truchetet D (1997) Population dynamics of fossorial water vole (Arvicola terrestris scherman): a land usage and landscape perspective. Agric Ecosyst Environ 66: 47-60.
22. Giraudoux P, Delattre P, Takahashi K, Raoul F, Quéré JP, Craig P, Vuitton D (2002) Transmission ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis in wildlife: what can be learned from comparative studies and multi-scale approaches? In: Craig P, Pawlowski ZS (eds) Cestode zoonoses: echinococcosis and cysticercoses, an emergent and global problem. IOS, Amsterdam, pp 251-266.
23. Giraudoux P, Craig PS, Delattre P, Bao G, Bartholomot B, Harraga S, Quéré JP, Raoul F, Wang Y, Shi D, Vuitton DA (2003) Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate Echinococcus multilocularis transmission. Parasitology 127: S121-S131.
24. Giraudoux P, Raoul F, Boue F, Combes B, Piarroux R, Bresson-Hadni S, Vuitton DA (2008) Geography of alveolar echinococcosis. Bull Acad Natl Med 192: 1119-1125.
25. Gottstein B, Saucy F, Deplazes P, Reichen J, Demierre G, Busato A, Zuercher C, Pugin P (2001) Is high prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in wild and domestic animals associated with disease incidence in humans? Emerg Infect Dis 7: 408-412.
26. Grisot L (1990) Contribution à l'étude épidémiologique de l'échinococcose multiloculaire dans le Doubs. Veterinary dissertation, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Lyon.
27. Guislain MH, Raoul F, Giraudoux P, Terrier ME, Froment G, Ferte H, Poulle ML (2008) Ecological and biological factors involved in the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in the French Ardennes. J Helminthol 82: 143-151.
28. Hanosset R, Saegerman C, Adant S, Massart L, Losson B (2008) Echinococcus multilocularis in Belgium: prevalence in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and in different species of potential intermediate hosts. Vet Parasitol 151: 212-217.
29. Hegglin D, Bontadina F, Contesse P, Gloor S, Deplazes P (2007) Plasticity of predation behaviour as a putative driving force for parasite life-cycle dynamics: the case of urban foxes and Echinococcus multilocularis tapeworm. Funct Ecol 21: 552-560.
30. Hofer S, Gloor S, Muller U, Mathis A, Hegglin D, Deplazes P (2000) High prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in urban red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and voles (Arvicola terrestris) in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Parasitology 120: 135-142.
31. Holling C (1959) The functional components of predation as revealed by a study of small-mammal predation of the European pine sawfly. Can Entomol 91: 293-320.
32. Jimenez-Garcia MI, Vidal-Martinez VM (2005) Temporal variation in the infection dynamics and maturation cycle of Oligogonotylus manteri (digenea) in the cichlid fish, 'Cichlasoma' urophthalmus, from Yucatan, Mexico. J Parasitol 91: 1008-1014.
33. Kapel CMO, Torgerson PR, Thompson RCA, Deplazes P (2006) Reproductive potential of Echinococcus multilocularis in experimentally infected foxes, dogs, raccoon dogs and cats. Int J Parasitol 36: 79-86.
34. Le Louarn H, Quéré JP (2003) Les rongeurs de France. Faunistique et biologie. 2e édition revue et augmentée. Institut National de la Recheche Agronomique.
35. Mukhopadhyay B, Bhattacharyya R (2009) Role of predator switching in an eco-epidemiological model with disease in the prey. Ecol Model 220: 931-939.
36. O'Mahony D, Lambin X, MacKinnon JL, Coles CF (1999) Fox predation on cyclic field vole populations in Britain. Ecography 22: 575-581.
37. Pleydell DRJ et al (2004) Modelling the spatial distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis infection in foxes. Acta Trop 91: 253-265.
38. Quéré JP, Raoul F, Giraudoux P, Delattre P (2000) An index method applicable at landscape scale to estimate relative population densities of the common vole (Microtus arvalis). Rev Ecol (Terre Vie) 55: 25-32.
39. Raoul F, Defaut R, Michelat D, Montadert M, Pépin D, Quéré JP, Tissot B, Delattre P, Giraudoux P (2001a) Landscape effects on the populations dynamics of small mammal communities and prey-resource variations: a preliminary analysis. Rev Ecol (Terre Vie) 56: 339-352.
40. Raoul F, Deplazes P, Nonaka N, Piarroux R, Vuitton DA, Giraudoux P (2001b) Assessment of the epidemiological status of Echinococcus multilocularis in foxes in France using ELISA coprotests on fox faeces collected in the field. Int J Parasitol 31: 1579-1588.
41. Raoul F, Michelat D, Ordinaire M, Decote Y, Aubert M, Delattre P, Deplazes P, Giraudoux P (2003) Echinococcus multilocularis: secondary poisoning of fox population during a vole outbreak reduces environmental contamination in a high endemicity area. Int J Parasitol 33: 945-954.
42. Rausch RL (1995) Life-cycle patterns and geographic distribution of Echinococcus species. In: Thomson RCA, Lymbery AJ (eds) Echinococcus and hydatid disease. CAB International, Wallingford, pp 89-134.
43. Reperant LA, Hegglin D, Tanner I, Fischer C, Deplazes P (2009) Rodents as shared indicators for zoonotic parasites of carnivores in urban environments. Parasitology 136: 329-337.
44. Robardet E, Giraudoux P, Caillot C, Boué F, Cliquet F, Augot D, Barrat J (2008) Infection of foxes by Echinococcocus multilocularis in urban and suburban areas of Nancy, France: influence of feeding habits and environment. Parasite 15: 77-85.
45. Saitoh T, Takahashi K (1998) The role of vole populations in prevalence of the parasite (Echinococcus multilocularis) in foxes. Res Pop Ecol 40: 97-105.
46. Sidorovich VE, Sidorovich AA, Izotova IV (2006) Variations in the diet and population density of the red fox Vulpes vulpes in the mixed woodlands of northern Belarus. Mamm Biol 71: 74-89.
47. Stieger C, Hegglin D, Schwarzenbach G, Mathis A, Deplazes P (2002) Spatial and temporal aspects of urban transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis. Parasitology 124: 631-640.
48. Stien A, Voutilainen L, Haukisalmi V, Fuglei E, Mork T, Yoccoz NG, Ims RA, Henttonen H (2010) Intestinal parasites of the Arctic fox in relation to the abundance and distribution of intermediate hosts. Parasitology 137: 149-157.
49. Tanner F, Hegglin D, Thoma R, Brosi G, Deplazes P (2006) Echinococcus multilocularis in Grisons: distribution in foxes and presence of potential intermediate hosts. Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd 148: 501-510.
50. R Development Core Team (2009) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
51. Torgerson PR (2006) Canid immunity to Echinococcus spp.: impact on transmission. Parasite Immunol 28: 295-303.
52. Weber J-M (1996) Food selection by adult red foxes Vulpes vulpes during a water vole decline. Wildl Biol 2: 283-288.
53. Zabala J, Zuberogoitia I (2003) Badger, Meles meles (Mustelidae, Carnivora), diet assessed through scat-analysis: a comparison and critique of different methods. Folia Zool 52: 23-30.