Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Dunne, Jennifer A ^a,b   Lafferty, Kevin D ^c   Dobson, Andrew P ^d   Hechinger, Ryan F ^c   Kuris, Armand M ^c   Martinez, Neo D ^b   McLaughlin, John P ^c   Mouritsen, Kim N ^e   Poulin, Robert ^f   Reise, Karsten ^g   Stouffer, Daniel B ^h,l   Thieltges, David W ⁱ   Williams, Richard J ^j,m   Zander, Claus Dieter ^k  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

ⁱ ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^j MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^m Quid   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FOOD WEB; FREE LIVING SPECIES; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; PARASITISM; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PROBABILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

METAZOA;

EID: 84879362897     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001579     Document Type: Article

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