Abstract
Serra Calderona Natural Park, a Mediterranean ecosystem, has been in post-fire regeneration for 10 years. To elucidate which helminth community component species of the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, can be considered biological tags of this process, the influence of intrinsic (host density; host sex and age) and extrinsic factors (site, year, and period of capture; vegetation recovery) on their prevalence and abundance has been analysed, comparing a burned and an unburned area. A total of 564 wood mice (408 from the burned and 156 from the unburned area), from the 2nd to the10th post-fire year, was included in this helminthoecological study. The results suggest that the area in post-fire regeneration is still more vulnerable to periodic environmental changes than the unburned area as deduced from the analysis of the helminth populations of Pseudocatenotaenia matovi, Skrjabinotaenia lobata, Trichuris muris, Eucoleus bacillatus and Aonchotheca annulosa. The intermediate and definitive host populations presented a greater variability to these environmental changes in the burned area (Taenia parva, P. matovi, S. lobata, A. annulosa, Syphacia stroma and S. frederici). In the regenerating area, some behavioural changes in certain populations determined by the host sex are taking place (T. parva, Helgimosomoides polygyrus and S. frederici). During the last years studied, a greater similarity in the populational development of some component species between both areas can be appreciated (H. polygyrus and S. stroma). The role of the wood mouse and its helminth parasites as biological tags of the post-fire regeneration process in Mediterranean ecosystems has been confirmed.
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This study has been supported by projects CGL2007- 61173/BOS and BOS 2000-0570-C02-02, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, PB87-0135 and PB92-0517-C02-01, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid, Spain; GV05/001, Conselleria d’Empresa, Universitat i Ciència, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; UV-AE 20060233 and UV97-2216 of the Universitat de València, Spain; CPE/073, Institució Valenciana d’Estudis i Investigació, València, Spain. S. Sainz-Elipe received a personal postgraduate scholarship from the Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain.
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Sáez-Durán, S., Debenedetti, Á.L., Sainz-Elipe, S. et al. The helminth community component species of the wood mouse as biological tags of a ten post-fire-year regeneration process in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Parasitol Res 117, 2217–2231 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5909-4
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