ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Fire reduces parasite load in a Mediterranean lizard.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sex-Biased Interactions Between Spur-Thighed Tortoises (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The Mechanisms Through Which Fire Drives Population Change in Terrestrial Biota.Global change biology · 2025Review
- Environmental conditions influence host-parasite interactions and host fitness in a migratory passerine.Integrative zoology · 2025Article
- Do natural catastrophic events and exceptional climatic conditions also affect parasites?Parasitology · 2023Review
- Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Wildfires modify the parasite loads of invasive cane toads.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Fire reduces parasite load in a Mediterranean lizard.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Wildfires are a natural disturbance in many ecosystems. However, their effect on biotic interactions has been poorly studied. Fire consumes the vegetation and the litter layer where many parasites spend part of their life cycles. We hypothesize that wildfires reduce habitat availability for parasites with consequent potential benefits for hosts. We tested this for the lizard
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