Parasites as prey in aquatic food webs: implications for predator infection and parasite transmission

While the recent inclusion of parasites into food-web studies has highlighted the role of parasites as consumers, there is accumulating evidence that parasites can also serve as prey for predators. Here we investigated empirical patterns of predation on parasites and their relationships with parasit...

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Veröffentlicht in:Oikos 2013-10, Vol.122 (10), p.1473-1482
Hauptverfasser: Thieltges, David W., Amundsen, Per-Arne, Hechinger, Ryan F., Johnson, Pieter T. J., Lafferty, Kevin D., Mouritsen, Kim N., Preston, Daniel L., Reise, Karsten, Zander, C. Dieter, Poulin, Robert
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