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Parasites that change predator or prey behaviour can have keystone effects on community composition

Parasites play pivotal roles in structuring communities, often via indirect interactions with non-host species. These effects can be density-mediated (through mortality) or trait-mediated (behavioural, physiological and developmental), and may be crucial to population interactions, including biologi...

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Autores principales: Hatcher, Melanie J., Dick, Jaimie T. A., Dunn, Alison M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24429680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0879