Parasite communities : patterns and processes
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Parasite communities : patterns and processes
Chapman and Hall, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 felt the reason for such debate was because the discipline was in a great state of flux, with many new concepts and approaches being introduced with increasing frequency. After consider- able discussion about the need, scope and the inevitable limitations of such a symposium, we decided that the time was ripe to bring other ecologists, engaged in similar research, face-to-face. There were many individuals from whom to choose; we selected those who were actively publishing on helminth communities or those who had expertise in areas which we felt were particularly appropriate. We compiled a list of potential participants, contacted them and received unanimous support to organize such a symposium. Our intent was to cover several broad areas, fully recognizing that breadth negates depth (at least with a publisher's limitation on the number of pages).
We felt it important to consider patterns amongst different kinds of hosts because this is where we had disagreed among ourselves.
Table of Contents
1 Patterns and processes in helminth parasite communities: an overview.- 2 Host populations as resources defining parasite community organization.- 3 Spatial scale and the processes structuring a guild of larval trematode parasites.- 4 Guild structure of larval trematodes in molluscan hosts: prevalence, dominance and significance in competition.- 5 Helminth communities in marine fishes.- 6 Helminth communities in freshwater fish: structured communities of stochastic assemblages?.- 7 Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles: comparative approaches to understanding patterns and processes.- 8 Helminth communities in avian hosts: determinants of pattern.- 9 Helminth community of mammalian hosts: concepts at the infracommunity, component and compound community levels.- 10 Models for multi-species parasite-host communities.- 11 Free-living communities and alimentary tract helminths: hypotheses and pattern analyses.- 12 Concluding remarks.
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