Nematomorph parasites indirectly alter the food web and ecosystem function of streams through behavioural manipulation of their cricket hosts

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 786-793

  Sato, Takuya ^a   Egusa, Tomohiro ^b   Fukushima, Keitaro ^c   Oda, Tomoki ^b   Ohte, Nobuhito ^b   Tokuchi, Naoko ^c   Watanabe, Katsutoshi ^d   Kanaiwa, Minoru ^e   Murakami, Isaya ^f   Lafferty, Kevin D ^g  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^f Regional Environmental Planning Inc   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Ecosystem function; Manipulative parasite; Nematomorph; Resource subsidy; Riparian; Stream salmonid

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOMASS; CRICKET; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MACROBENTHOS; NEMATODE; PARASITE; PREDATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SALMONID; STREAM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GRYLLIDAE; HELMINTH; INVERTEBRATE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RIVER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GRYLLIDAE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; INVERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVERS;

ALGAE; GRYLLIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATOMORPHA; PISCES; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 84863489283     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01798.x     Document Type: Article

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