An island paradigm on the mainland:Host population fragmentation impairs the community of avian pathogens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1718, 2011, Pages 2668-2676

  VöGeli, Matthias ^a,b   Lemus, Jesus A ^a,c   Serrano, David ^a   Blanco, Guillermo ^c   Tella, José L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chersophilus duponti; Dupont's lark; Emerging infectious diseases; Habitat fragmentation; Host population size; Host pathogen metapopulation models

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BACTERIUM; BIRD; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ISOLATED POPULATION; METAPOPULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARASITE; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIRD DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PASSERIFORMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHERSOPHILUS DUPONTI;

EID: 79960785054     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1227     Document Type: Article

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