A5000932061- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Helminth infection and control
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Marine and fisheries research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
University of Otago
2016-2025
Dunedin Public Hospital
1998-2021
University of New England
2019
University of London
2019
Universidad de Londres
2019
Royal Veterinary College
2019
Google (United States)
2016-2018
Auburn University
2017
Linköping University
2017
Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
2016
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 exploiting a species across its geographic range. This arrangement provides opportunity for the study patterns structuring processes operating at different Across parasite faunas species, several species-area relationships have been published, emphasizing key role factors such as size or geographical in...
The strength of interactions among species in a network tends to be highly asymmetric. We evaluate the hypothesis that this asymmetry results from distribution abundance species, so occur randomly individuals. used database on mutualistic and antagonistic bipartite quantitative interaction networks. show across all types networks was correlated with abundance, rare were asymmetrically affected by their abundant partners, while pairs interacting tended exhibit more symmetric, reciprocally...
Journal Article Parasitism and group size in social animals: a meta-analysis Get access Isabelle M. Côté, Côté aDepartment of Zoology, University TorontoToronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Poulinb bDepartment OtagoPO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand Behavioral Ecology, Volume 6, Issue 2, Winter 1995, Pages 159–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/6.2.159 Published: 01 December 1995 history Received: 06 October 1993...
1. Understanding the structure of ecological networks is a crucial task for interpreting community and ecosystem responses to global change. 2. Despite recent interest in this subject, almost all studies have focused exclusively on one specific network property. The question remains as what extent different properties are related how understanding relationship can advance our comprehension mechanisms behind these patterns. 3. Here, we analysed between nestedness modularity, two frequently...
Global warming can affect the world's biota and functioning of ecosystems in many indirect ways. Recent evidence indicates that climate change alter geographical distribution parasitic diseases, with potentially drastic consequences for their hosts. It is also possible warmer conditions could promote transmission parasites raise local abundance. Here I have compiled experimental data on effect temperature emergence infective stages (cercariae) trematode from snail intermediate...
Parasites primarily affect food web structure through changes to diversity and complexity. However, compared free-living species, their life-history traits lead more complex feeding niches altered motifs.
Summary Meta‐analysis has become a standard way of summarizing empirical studies in many fields, including ecology and evolution. In evolution, meta‐analyses comparing two groups (usually experimental control groups) have almost exclusively focused on the means, using standardized metrics such as Cohen's / Hedges’ d or response ratio. However, an treatment may not only affect mean but also variance. Investigating differences variance between be informative, especially when influences...
This research was funded by EU FP7 grant ANTIGONE (#278976). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
The makeup of parasite communities is the result, among other factors, interactions between evolutionary history and ecological characteristics hosts. This study evaluates relative importance some factors (host body size, diet, habitat, latitude, mean number individuals per host) as determinants or correlates community richness in vertebrates, before after controlling for potential effects host phylogenetic relationships. Data were obtained from literature on 596 belonging to one four...