ReviewOecologia2009
The role of trematode parasites in larval anuran communities: an aquatic ecologist's guide to the major players.
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- Salt in the Wound: Assessing Pathogen Susceptibility in Amphibian Populations Across a Gradient of Salt Pollution.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- First record of natural helminth infection in early larval stages of two Anuran species.Parasitology research · 2026Article
- Behave yourself: effects of exogenous-glucocorticoid exposure on larval amphibian anti-parasite behaviour and physiology.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Diverging effects of host density and richness across biological scales drive diversity-disease outcomes.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on host-parasite interactions in aquatic environments.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Selected Wildlife Trematodes.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Effects of multiple stressors on northern leopard frogs in agricultural wetlands.Parasitology · 2021Article
- Parasites and their freshwater snail hosts maintain their nutritional value for essential fatty acids despite altered algal diets.Oecologia · 2021Article
- The contributions of a trematode parasite infectious stage to carbon cycling in a model freshwater system.Parasitology research · 2021Article
- Timing and order of exposure to two echinostome species affect patterns of infection in larval amphibians.Parasitology · 2020Article
- Size and survival of two freshwater snail species in relation to shedding of cercariae of castrating Echinostoma spp.Parasitology research · 2020Article
- Parasite infectious stages provide essential fatty acids and lipid-rich resources to freshwater consumers.Oecologia · 2020Article
- Effects of vertical position on trematode parasitism in larval anurans.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Free-living parasite infectious stages promote zooplankton abundance under the risk of predation.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Sub-chronic exposure to a neonicotinoid does not affect susceptibility of larval leopard frogs to infection by trematode parasites, via either depressed cercarial performance or host immunity.Parasitology research · 2019Article
- How Temperature, Pond-Drying, and Nutrients Influence Parasite Infection and Pathology.EcoHealth · 2018Article
- Exposure to a cyanobacterial toxin increases larval amphibian susceptibility to parasitism.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- Atrazine reduces the transmission of an amphibian trematode by altering snail and ostracod host-parasite interactions.Parasitology research · 2016Article
- Development and application of an eDNA method to detect and quantify a pathogenic parasite in aquatic ecosystems.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2015Article
- Host density and competency determine the effects of host diversity on trematode parasite infection.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
Conservation strategies depend on our understanding of the ecosystem and community dynamics. To date, such understanding has focused mostly on predator-prey and competitor interactions. It is increasingly clear, however, that parasite-host interactions may represent a large, and important, component of natural communities. The need to consider multiple factors and their synergistic interactions if we are to elucidate the contribution of anthropogenic factors to loss in biodiversity is exemplified by research into present-day amphibian declines. Only recently has the role of factors such as trematode parasite infections been incorporated into studies of the population and community dynamics of aquatic systems. We argue that this is due, at least in part, to difficulties faced by aquatic ecologists in sifting through the complex systematics that pervade the parasite literature. We note that two trematode species are of dominant importance with regard to North American larval anuran communities, and provide in this review a clear explanation of how to distinguish between the infective stages of these two parasites. We describe the general biology and life history of these parasites, as well as what is known about their effect on larval anurans, and the interactive effects of environmental stressors (typically anthropogenic in nature) and parasites on larval anurans. We hope that this review will convince the reader of the potential importance of these parasites to aquatic communities in general, and to amphibian communities specifically, and will also provide the information necessary for aquatic ecologists to more frequently consider the role of these parasites in their studies of aquatic ecology.
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