Parasites can shape community structure through their effects on trophic interactions, food webs, competition, biodiversity, and keystone species. Aa Aa Aa The ecological interactions of parasites ...

Over the past three decades, a range of ecological evidence suggests that parasites are indeed worthy of our attention. In ...

Parasitoid wasps sometimes lay eggs in unsuitable host insects, a behavior that has traditionally been considered accidental.

A. D. Poyser, 2000. Davis, S. K. & Sealy, S. G. Cowbird parasitism and nest predation in fragmented grasslands of southwestern Manitoba. In Ecology and Management of Cowbirds and Their Hosts.

Wood explores how such methodology could help researchers address ecological questions about not only fish but other aquatic taxa. The paper presents historical parasite ecology as a new subdiscipline ...

And, reciprocally, can higher levels of biodiversity reduce parasite transmission (i.e., the dilution effect) or lead to increases in infection (i.e., the amplification effect)? Through what ...

How to use this data set in a class: This data set could be used in discussions of community ecology (species diversity), species interactions (brood parasitism), and management of an endangered bird ...

Host-symbiont interactions provide ideal models for exploring diverse evolutionary and ecological processes. These relationships, spanning the continuum from mutualism to parasitism, have profound ...