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SUBMITTER: Lafferty KD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2408649 | biostudies-other | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lafferty Kevin D KD Allesina Stefano S Arim Matias M Briggs Cherie J CJ De Leo Giulio G Dobson Andrew P AP Dunne Jennifer A JA Johnson Pieter T J PT Kuris Armand M AM Marcogliese David J DJ Martinez Neo D ND Memmott Jane J Marquet Pablo A PA McLaughlin John P JP Mordecai Erin A EA Pascual Mercedes M Poulin Robert R Thieltges David W DW
Ecology letters 20080601 6
Parasitism is the most common consumer strategy among organisms, yet only recently has there been a call for the inclusion of infectious disease agents in food webs. The value of this effort hinges on whether parasites affect food-web properties. Increasing evidence suggests that parasites have the potential to uniquely alter food-web topology in terms of chain length, connectance and robustness. In addition, parasites might affect food-web stability, interaction strength and energy flow. Food-w ...[more]