Using larval trematodes that parasitize snails to evaluate a saltmarsh restoration project

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 795-804

  Huspeni, Todd C ^a   Lafferty, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological indicators; Cerithidea californica; Estuarine restoration; Parasites; Restoration; Salt marsh; Trematode

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CALIFORNIA; CARPINTERIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; CERITHIDEA; CERITHIDEA CALIFORNICA; DIGENEA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; POTAMIDIDAE; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 8144223160     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/01-5346     Document Type: Article

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