Parasites a key to the decline of red colobus monkeys in forest fragments Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau ...

Parasites and kelp forests The most detailed look at kelp forests to date finds unseen parasites dominate species interactions Date: April 15, 2021 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara ...

Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, often causing declines or local extinctions in a majority of species while enhancing the prospects of a few. A new study shows that parasites can play ...

But forest fragmentation significantly reduces the moist leaf litter habitat that these amphipods require, depriving the skinks of a meal and the parasites of a transmission pathway. The study found ...

Forest fragmentation disrupts parasite infection in Australian lizards Deforestation and habitat fragmentation can decrease transmission of a parasitic nematode in a particular species of ...

Even the mention of parasites can be enough to make some people’s skin crawl. But to recent UC Santa Barbara doctoral graduate Dana Morton these creepy critters occupy important ecological ...

Analysis of parasitoid rearings by the Canadian Forest Insect Survey shows that parasitism of particular Lepidoptera species is strongly host-plant-dependent, ...

In forests across eastern North America, ... About 70 percent of their subjects had parasites, and those beetles were larger and ate about 15 percent more than those without parasites.

A parasitic fungus transforms ants into “zombies.” Scientists say that the ant-attacking fungus is infected with fungal parasites of its own, which could be helping to keep ant zombification ...

Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, often causing declines or local extinctions in a majority of species while enhancing the prospects of a few. A new study from the University of ...