Ticks are parasites that bite and feed on humans and pets. They can spread Lyme disease and other infections. Here's what to ...

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. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 04 / 210415141855.htm. 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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In forests they are found in soil, leaf litter, the canopy, and almost everywhere in between. RELATED STORIES — In a 1st, man catches 'silver leaf,' a tree fungus never before seen in humans ...

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 ...

Parasites a key to the decline of red colobus monkeys in forest fragments. Parasites a key to the decline of red colobus monkeys in forest fragments. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.