The extinction of a single species is rarely an isolated event. Instead, dependent parasites,
commensals, and mutualist partners (affiliates) face the risk of coextinction as their hosts or …

Parasite communities are arranged into hierarchical levels of organization, covering various
spatial and temporal scales. These range from all parasites within an individual host to all …

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up
a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and …

Series Editor: Peter Calow, Department of Zoology, University of Sheffield, England The
main aim of this series will be to illustrate and to explain the way organisms' make a living'in …

The role of interspecific interactions in the structure of gastrointestinal helminth communities
has been at the core of most research in parasite community ecology, yet there is no …

We used null model analysis to test for nonrandomness in the structure of metazoan
ectoparasite communities of 45 species of marine fish. Host species consistently supported …

Patterns in helminth community structure can suggest that various processes are acting to
shape parasite communities into organised, non-random assemblages of species. It is not …

What processes account for the structure and dynamics of heiminth parasite assemblages
within vertebrate and invertebrate hosts? Attempts to answer this question form the basis for …

Multiple species infections with parasitic helminths, including nematodes, are common in
wild rodent populations. In this paper we first define different types of associations and …

1. We describe the patterns of co-occurrence in gastrointestinal helminths of the bank vole
Clethrionomys glareolus at two localities in Finland, Pallasjarvi in western Lapland and …