The combined influence of trematode parasites and predatory salamanders on wood frog (Rana sylvatica) tadpoles

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1077-1086

  Belden, Lisa K ^a   Wojdak, Jeremy M ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma; Disease; Echinostoma; Predation; Ribeiroia

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATOR; SURVIVAL; SYNERGISM;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FOOD CHAIN; FROG; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMIASIS; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANIDAE;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA JEFFERSONIANUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; GASTROPODA; PLATYHELMINTHES; RANA SYLVATICA; RIBEIROIA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; TREMATODA;

EID: 79960335283     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1946-8     Document Type: Article

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