Predator diversity, intraguild predation, and indirect effects drive parasite transmission

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3008-3013

  Rohr, Jason R ^a   Civitello, David J ^a   Crumrine, Patrick W ^b   Halstead, Neal T ^a   Miller, Andrew D ^c   Schotthoefer, Anna M ^d   Stenoien, Carl ^e   Johnson, Lucinda B ^f   Beasley, Val R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity ecosystem function; Dilution effect; Schistosomiasis; Snail; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CERCARIA; DAMSELFLY; DENSITY; DRAGONFLY; DRIVE; HOST; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MACROPARASITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; WETLAND; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PREDATION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRANSMISSION;

AMPHIBIA; GASTROPODA; ODONATA; TREMATODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84924308134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415971112     Document Type: Article

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