Body size, trophic level, and the use of fish as transmission routes by parasites

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 731-738

  Poulin, R ^a   Leung, T L F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex life cycle; Food webs; Helminths; Intermediate hosts; Predation; Trophic link

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FISH; FLATWORM; FOOD WEB; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DIET; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HELMINTH; HOST RANGE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIET; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HOST SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; VERMES;

EID: 79958703061     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1906-3     Document Type: Article

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