Habitat, predators, and hosts regulate disease in Daphnia through direct and indirect pathways

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 393-411

  Strauss, Alexander T ^a   Shocket, Marta S ^a   Civitello, David J ^b   Hite, Jessica L ^a   Penczykowski, Rachel M ^c   Duffy, Meghan A ^d   Cáceres, Carla E ^e   Hall, Spencer R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Daphnia; Dilution effect; Disease ecology; Friendly competition; Healthy herds; Metschnikowia; Path analysis; Selective predation; Sloppy predation; Spore predation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRUSTACEAN; DILUTION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FLY; FOOD WEB; FUNGAL DISEASE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

CERIODAPHNIA SP.; CHAOBORUS PUNCTIPENNIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA DENTIFERA; LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS; METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA;

EID: 84979658013     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1222     Document Type: Article

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