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Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Gerald W. Esch

    1. Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

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  2. Albert O. Bush

    1. Department of Zoology, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada

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  3. John M. Aho

    1. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Patterns and processes in helminth parasite communities: an overview

    • Gerald W. Esch, Allen W. Shostak, David J. Marcogliese, Timothy M. Goater
    Pages 1-19

  3. Host populations as resources defining parasite community organization

    • Peter W. Price
    Pages 21-40

  4. Spatial scale and the processes structuring a guild of larval trematode parasites

    • Wayne P. Sousa
    Pages 41-67

  5. Guild structure of larval trematodes in molluscan hosts: prevalence, dominance and significance of competition

    • Armand Kuris
    Pages 69-100

  6. Helminth communities in marine fishes

    • John C. Holmes
    Pages 101-130

  7. Helminth communities in freshwater fish: structured communities or stochastic assemblages?

    • C. R. Kennedy
    Pages 131-156

  8. Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles: comparative approaches to understanding patterns and processes

    • John M. Aho
    Pages 157-195

  9. Helminth communities in avian hosts: determinants of pattern

    • Albert O. Bush
    Pages 197-232

  10. Helminth community of mammalian hosts: concepts at the infracommunity, component and compound community levels

    • Danny B. Pence
    Pages 233-260

  11. Models for multi-species parasite-host communities

    • A. P. Dobson
    Pages 261-288

  12. Free-living communities and alimentary tract helminths: hypotheses and pattern analyses

    • Daniel Simberloff
    Pages 289-319

  13. Concluding remarks

    • Albert O. Bush, John M. Aho
    Pages 321-325

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 327-335
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

    Gerald W. Esch

  • Department of Zoology, Brandon University, Brandon, Canada

    Albert O. Bush

  • Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, USA

    John M. Aho

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes

  • Editors: Gerald W. Esch, Albert O. Bush, John M. Aho

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0837-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Chapman and Hall 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6863-5Published: 28 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0837-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 335

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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