Effects of wetland vs. landscape variables on parasite communities of Rana pipiens: Links to anthropogenic factors

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1257-1271

  Schotthoefer, Anna M ^a,e   Rohr, Jason R ^b   Cole, Rebecca A ^c   Koehler, Anson V ^c,f   Johnson, Catherine M ^d,g   Johnson, Lucinda B ^d   Beasley, Val R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^e MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^g Monongahela National Forest   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; CANOCO; Echinostomatid; FRAGSTATS; Landscape analysis; Minnesota, USA; Parasite community structure; Rana (=Lithobates) pipiens; Ribeiroia ondatrae; Trematode

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATRAZINE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EMERGENCE; EUTROPHICATION; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVERTEBRATE; LANDSCAPE; LARVA; METABOLITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARASITISM; PESTICIDE; POPULATION DECLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FROG; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANA PIPIENS; WETLANDS;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; RANA PIPIENS; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 79958813721     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0374.1     Document Type: Article

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