Effects of resource availability and social aggregation on the species richness of raccoon endoparasite infracommunities

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1427-1433

  Monello, Ryan J ^a   Gompper, Matthew E ^b  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDOPARASITE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MUSTELID; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PROCYON;

EID: 80051588244     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19260.x     Document Type: Article

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