ArticleOecologia2016
Parasite load and seasonal migration in red deer.
Article in Oecologia, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Elucidating nematode diversity and prevalence in moose across a wide latitudinal gradient using DNA metabarcoding.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024Article
- A New Endemic Locality ofInsects · 2024Article
- The emergence and shift in seasonality of Lyme borreliosis in Northern Europe.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Effect of sex on the gut microbiota characteristics of passerine migratory birds.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Variation in movement patterns of mule deer: have we oversimplified migration?Movement ecology · 2021Article
- Leveraging genomics to understand threats to migratory birds.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- Elk migration influences the risk of disease spillover in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.The Journal of animal ecology · 2021Article
- Red and fallow deer determine the density of Ixodes ricinus nymphs containing Anaplasma phagocytophilum.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Living with liver flukes: Does migration matter?International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2020Article
- A unifying framework for the transient parasite dynamics of migratory hosts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- The Potential Role of Migratory Birds in the Rapid Spread of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens in the Changing Climatic and Environmental Conditions in Europe.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Immune function and blood parasite infections impact stopover ecology in passerine birds.Oecologia · 2018Article
- Metrics matter: the effect of parasite richness, intensity and prevalence on the evolution of host migration.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Partial migration in savanna elephant populations distributed across southern Africa.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- How mammals stay healthy in nature: the evolution of behaviours to avoid parasites and pathogens.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Responses of migratory species and their pathogens to supplemental feeding.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Infections on the move: how transient phases of host movement influence disease spread.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
Northern deer populations are typically partially migratory, but the relationship between migratory movements and parasites has received little attention. Migration often involves movement from a low-elevation winter range towards a summer range at higher elevation. In Europe these movements may also involve a gradient in abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks, but whether tick loads on deer differ depending on migration tactic has not been quantified. Based on the examination of ears from 49 red deer (Cervus elaphus) marked with global positioning system collars, we provide the first evidence that the tick loads of deer covering longer distances between their winter and summer range, resulting in higher difference in elevation, are lower. Our study highlights that only the resident part of the red deer population will be available as year-round hosts to ticks, while a large part of the red deer population is unavailable to ticks for most of the tick questing season due to seasonal migration to higher elevation. Predicted changes in the migratory behaviour of ungulates could hence affect the proportion of the host population available to ticks in the future.
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