Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes
We first discussed the possibility of organizing a symposium on helminth communities in June, 1986. At that time, we were engaged in writing a joint paper on potential structuring mechanisms in helminth communities; we disagreed on a number of issues. We
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Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes Edited by
Gerald W. Esch Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA
Albert O. Bush Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
JohnM. Aho University of Georgia, South Carolina, USA
London New York CHAPMAN AND HALL
First published in 1990 by Chapman and Hall Ltd 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001
© 1990 Chapman and Hall Softcover reprint of the hardcover I st edition 1990 Typeset in lOpt Times by Scarborough Typesetting Services Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk ISBN-13: 978-94-010-6863-5 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-0837-6 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-0837-6 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced, or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Parasite communities. 1. Animals. Parasites I. Esch, Gerald W. II. Bush, Albert O. III. Aho, John M. 591.52'49
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Parasite communities: patterns and processes/ edited by Gerald W. Esch, Albert O. Bush, John M. Aho. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Helminths - Ecology. 2. Biotic communities. I. Esch, Gerald W. II. Bush, Albert 0., 1948- . III. Aho, John M. QL392.P37 1990 595.1 '045249-dc20 89-23867 CIP
Contents
Contributors Preface Editors' note 1 Patterns and processes in helminth parasite communities: an overview Gerald W. Esch, Allen W. Shostak, David J. Marcogliese and Timothy M. Goater 2
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Host populations as resources defining parasite community organization Peter W. Price
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Spatial scale and the processes structuring a guild of larval trematode parasites Wayne P. Sousa
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Guild structure of larval trematodes in molluscan hosts: prevalence, dominance and significance in competition Armand Kuris
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Helminth communities in marine fishes John C. Holmes
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Helminth communities in freshwater fish: structured communities of stochastic assemblages? C. R. Kennedy
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7 Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles: comparative approaches to understanding patterns and processes JohnM. Aho
8 Helminth communities in avian hosts: determinants of pattern Albert o. Bush
9 Helminth community of mammalian hosts: concepts at the
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infracommunity, component and compound community levels Danny B. Pence
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Models for multi-species parasite-host communities A. P. Dobson
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Free-living communities and alimentary tract helminths: hypotheses and pattern analyses Daniel Simberloff
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12 Concluding remarks
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Index
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Albert O. Bush and John M. Aho
Contributors
John M. Aho, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC, USA. Albert o. Bush, Department of Zoology, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Andy
