Climate-driven variation in the intensity of a host-symbiont animal interaction along a broad elevation gradient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Meléndez, Leandro ^a   Laiolo, Paola ^a   Mironov, Sergey ^c   García, Mónica ^a   Magaña, Oscar ^a   Jovani, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEATHER; FEMALE; HOST; MALE; MITE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PRECIPITATION; SONGBIRD; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; BIRD; FORELIMB; GEOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPAIN; SYMBIOSIS;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; MITES; POPULATION DENSITY; SPAIN; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; WING;

EID: 84904327904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101942     Document Type: Article

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