Lepková, Barbora Mašková, Tereza
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Oecologia
Plants inhabiting open landscapes are often dispersed by ungulates and are expected to be adapted to this type of dispersal through their seed traits. To find which traits help seeds survive the passage through digestion of wild ungulates, we conducted a comprehensive feeding experiment with almost forty species of plants and three species of ungul...
Paterson, Rachel A Poulin, Robert Selbach, Christian
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Oecologia
Seasonal changes in environmental conditions drive phenology, i.e., the annual timing of biological events ranging from the individual to the ecosystem. Phenological patterns and successional abundance cycles have been particularly well studied in temperate freshwater systems, showing strong and predictable synchrony with seasonal changes. However,...
Blackwood, Paradyse E Jonasen, Kacie L Hoenig, Brandon D Heil, Brittany N Searle, Catherine L
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Oecologia
Invasive species can have large effects on native communities. When native and invasive species share parasites, an epidemic in a native species could facilitate or inhibit the invasion. We sought to understand how the incidence and timing of epidemics in native species caused by a generalist parasite influenced the success and impact of an invasiv...
Garvey, Derek C Blanar, Christopher A Warburton, Elizabeth M Grunberg, Rita L Mckean, Elise L Kerstetter, David W
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Oecologia
Understanding the mechanisms of parasite community assembly can be confounded by phylogenetic distance among host species. Addressing this requires focusing on parasite communities within closely related taxa. Thus, we took a macroecological approach to examining parasite community structure within Killifish species in the genus Fundulus to disenta...
Rodgers, Maria L Bolnick, Daniel I
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Oecologia
Parasitic infections are a global occurrence and impact the health of many species. Coinfections, where two or more species of parasite are present in a host, are a common phenomenon across species. Coinfecting parasites can interact directly or indirectly via their manipulation of (and susceptibility to) the immune system of their shared host. Hel...
Svatos, Emma C Falke, Landon P Preston, Daniel L
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Oecologia
Increases in the intensity and frequency of wildfires highlight the need to understand how fire disturbance affects ecological interactions. Though the effects of wildfire on free-living aquatic communities are relatively well-studied, how host-parasite interactions respond to fire disturbance is largely unexplored. Using a Before-After-Control-Imp...
Grunberg, Rita L Braat, Megan Bolnick, Daniel I
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Oecologia
Parasite infections are ubiquitous and their effects on hosts could play a role in ecosystem processes. Ecological stoichiometry provides a framework to study linkages between consumers and their resource, such as parasites and their host, and ecosystem process; however, the stoichiometric traits of host-parasite associations are rarely quantified....
Strauss, Alexander T Suh, Daniel C Galbraith, Kate Coker, Sarah M Schroeder, Katie Brandon, Christopher Warburton, Elizabeth M Yabsley, Michael J Cleveland, Christopher A
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Oecologia
Parasites can play key roles in ecosystems, especially when they infect common hosts that play important ecological roles. Daphnia are critical grazers in many lentic freshwater ecosystems and typically reach peak densities in early spring. Daphnia have also become prominent model host organisms for the field of disease ecology, although most well-...
Soler, Juan José Møller, Anders Pape
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Oecologia
Parasite-mediated sexual selection has been the topic of extensive research and enthusiastic debate for more than three decades. Here, we suggest that secondary sexual characters may not only signal parasite resistance but also defensive tolerance. We exemplify this possibility by analysing information on two sexually selected traits, annual reprod...
Hobson, Keith A
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Oecologia
The measurement of naturally occurring stable isotope ratios of the light elements (C, N, H, O, S) in animal tissues and associated organic and inorganic fractions of associated environments holds immense potential as a means of addressing effects of global change on animals. This paper provides a brief review of studies that have used the isotope ...
