Shorebird populations, especially those feeding on shellfish, have strongly declined in recent decades and identifying the drivers of these declines is important for conservation. Changing food stocks are thought to be a key driver may also explain why trends not been uniform across Europe's largest estuary. We therefore investigated how winter population Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ost...

Trematode parasites are distributed worldwide and can severely impact host populations. However, their influence on ecosystem functioning through the alteration of engineering behaviours remains largely unexplored. This study focuses a common parasite system in marine coastal environments, i.e., trematode Himasthla elongata, infecting edible cockle Cerastoderma edule as second intermediate host...

INTRODUCTION A 20% of world cycad species are found in Mexico, 80% of which are endemic (Vovides, 2000). At least nine species are present in the state of San Luis Potosí: Dioon edule, Zamia fi scheri, Z. loddigesii, Ceratozamia hildae, C. kuesteriana, C. latifolia, C. mexicana, C. microstrobila, and C. zaragozae (Yáñez-Espinosa, 2006) [Ed’s note: Zamia vazquezii is also found in San Luis Potos...