Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts
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Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts.
An unappreciated facet of biodiversity is that rich communities and high abundance may foster parasitism. For parasites that sequentially use different host species throughout complex life cycles, parasite diversity and abundance in 'downstream' hosts should logically increase with the diversity and abundance of 'upstream' hosts (which carry the preceding stages of parasites). Surprisingly, thi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3070