Parasites that change predator or prey behaviour can have keystone effects on community composition

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hatcher, Melanie J ^a,b   Dick, Jaimie T A ^c   Dunn, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indirect interaction; Intraguild predation; Invasion; Parasite mediated; Trait mediated

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84893840210     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0879     Document Type: Article

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