Parasites in a man-made landscape: Contrasting patterns of trematode flow in a fishpond area in Central Europe

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 789-807

  Soldanova M ^a   Faltynkova A ^a   Scholz, T ^a   Kostadinova, A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Central Europe; eutrophic fishponds; Lymnaea stagnalis; parasite flow; spatial variation; trematode community structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EUROPE; EUTROPHICATION; LANDSCAPE; LARVA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MIRACIDIUM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PONDS; SEASONS; SNAILS; TREMATODA;

ANATIDAE; GASTROPODA; LARIDAE; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; PLAGIORCHIOIDEA; TREMATODA;

EID: 79955985386     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011000291     Document Type: Article

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