Competition, facilitation or mediation via host? Patterns of infestation of small European mammals by two taxa of haematophagous arthropods
| العنوان: | Competition, facilitation or mediation via host? Patterns of infestation of small European mammals by two taxa of haematophagous arthropods |
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| المؤلفون: | Boris R. Krasnov, Serge Morand, Michal Stanko |
| المصدر: | Ecological Entomology. 35:37-44 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Tick infestation, education.field_of_study, Flea, Ixodes ricinus, integumentary system, Ecology, biology, animal diseases, Population, Tick, bacterial infections and mycoses, medicine.disease, medicine.disease_cause, biology.organism_classification, Insect Science, Ixodes trianguliceps, parasitic diseases, Infestation, medicine, Species richness, education |
| الوصف: | 1. We studied the effect of flea infestation on the pattern of tick (Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes trianguliceps) infestation on small mammals. 2. We asked (1) whether the probability of an individual host being infested by ticks was affected by its infestation of fleas (number of individuals and species) and (2) whether the abundance and prevalence of ticks in a host population was affected by the abundance, prevalence, level of aggregation, and species richness of fleas. 3. The probability of a host individual being infested by ticks was affected negatively by flea infestation. At the level of host populations, flea abundance and prevalence had a predominantly positive effect on tick infestation, whereas flea species richness had a negative effect on tick infestation. 4. The effect of flea infestation on tick infestation was generally greater in I. ricinus than in I. trianguliceps, but varied among host species. 5. It can be concluded that the effect of fleas on tick infestation of small mammals may be either negative or positive depending on the level of consideration and parameters involved. The results did not provide support for direct interactions between the two ectoparasite taxa, but suggested population and community dynamics and the defence system of the hosts as possible factors. |
| تدمد: | 1365-2311 0307-6946 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::db28e0aee23fe71a1e3463834ed97bd9Test https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01153.xTest |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........db28e0aee23fe71a1e3463834ed97bd9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13652311 03076946 |
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