Metazoan parasites of African annual killifish (Nothobranchiidae): abundance, diversity, and their environmental correlates

Biotropica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 229-238

  Nezhybová, Veronika ^a,b   Reichard, Martin ^a   Blažek, Radim ^a,b   Ondračková, Markéta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

distribution patterns; fish intermediate host; habitat variation; Limpopo; Mozambique; Nothobranchius furzeri; paratenic host

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINFISH; INTERMEDIATE HOST; METAZOAN; PARASITE; SAVANNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

LIMPOPO; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTH AFRICA;

AVES; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; METAZOA; NEMATODA; NOTHOBRANCHIUS; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; TREMATODA;

EID: 85005989999     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12396     Document Type: Article

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