Parasite effects on host's trophic and isotopic niches

A Born-Torrijos, P Riekenberg, MTJ van der Meer… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Wild animals are usually infected with parasites that can alter their hosts' trophic niches in
food webs as can be seen from stable isotope analyses of infected versus uninfected …

Parasites in kelp‐forest food webs increase food‐chain length, complexity, and specialization, but reduce connectance

DN Morton, KD Lafferty - Ecological Monographs, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We explored whether parasites are important in kelp forests by examining their effects on a
high‐quality, high‐resolution kelp‐forest food web. After controlling for generic effects of …

A food web including parasites for kelp forests of the Santa Barbara Channel, California

DN Morton, CY Antonino, FJ Broughton, LN Dykman… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
We built a high-resolution topological food web for the kelp forests of the Santa Barbara
Channel, California, USA that includes parasites and significantly improves resolution …

High parasite prevalence in an ecosystem engineer correlated with both local-and landscape-level factors

SL Ziegler, WE Atencio, JM Carroll, JE Byers - Oecologia, 2024 - Springer
Spatial variation in parasitic infection may have many physical and biological drivers.
Uncovering these drivers may be especially important for parasites of ecosystem engineers …

Corynosoma strumosum (Acanthocephala) infection in marine foraging mink (Neogale vison) and river otter (Lontra canadensis) and associated peritonitis in a …

KM Shanebeck, C Thacker, C Lagrue - Parasitology International, 2022 - Elsevier
Corynosoma strumosum (Acanthocephala), a widespread parasite of pinnipeds, is reported
in marine foraging North American mink (Neogale vison) and river otter (Lontra canadensis) …

Halocercus lagenorhynchi infection in a stranded striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) on the Southwest coastline of India

PJ Sarlin, S Morris, SB Geethambika, L Gopi… - Journal of Parasitic …, 2024 - Springer
Necropsy on a striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) entangled in ghost
fishing net and dead while rescuing yielded some helminth parasites, later identified as …

[HTML][HTML]  Taxonomic and molecular characterization of Pseudosteringophorusprofundis sp. nov.(Digenea, Fellodistomidae), a parasite of Macrourusholotrachys …

ME Oliva, FA Sepúlveda, R Escribano, LA Ñacari - ZooKeys, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Pseudosteringophorusprofundissp. nov. a new species of deep-sea digenean,
parasitizing the gallbladder of the “Bigeye grenadier”(Macrourusholotrachys Günther, 1878) …

The role of diseases in unifying the health of global estuaries

K Tallam, E White Jr - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Establishing a universal indicator of estuary health is an ongoing challenge for coastal
ecology that is made more pressing due to the threat that climate change and anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Parasites as “Ecological Indicators” for Marine Vertebrates Monitoring and Ecosystem Stability

M Khammassi - 2024 - intechopen.com
This chapter underscores the importance of integrating parasitological data into marine
monitoring programs to enhance conservation and management efforts. By leveraging …

[图书][B] The effects of parasites on the kelp-forest food web

DN Morton - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Parasites often track food web linkages through their complex life cycles, but most food webs
do not systematically include parasites. Where studied, parasites have strong effects on food …