We first discussed the possibility of organizing a symposium on helminth communities in June, 1986. At that time, we were engaged in writing a joint paper on potential structuring mechanisms in helminth communities; we disagreed on a number of issues. We felt the reason for such debate was because the discipline was in a great state of flux, with many new concepts and approaches being introduced with increasing frequency. After consider able discussion about the need, scope and the inevitable limitations of such a symposium, we decided that the time was ripe to bring other ecologists, engaged in similar research, face-to-face. There were many individuals from whom to choose; we selected those who were actively publishing on helminth communities or those who had expertise in areas which we felt were particularly appropriate. We compiled a list of potential participants, contacted them and received unanimous support to organize such a symposium. Our intent was to cover several broad areas, fully recognizing that breadth negates depth (at least with a publisher's limitation on the number of pages). We felt it important to consider patterns amongst different kinds of hosts because this is where we had disagreed among ourselves.
Edited by:
Gerald W. Esch
Imprint: Springer
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 539g
ISBN: 9789401068635
ISBN 10: 9401068631
Pages: 335
Publication Date: 28 September 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Further / Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Patterns and processes in helminth parasite communities: an overview.- 2 Host populations as resources defining parasite community organization.- 3 Spatial scale and the processes structuring a guild of larval trematode parasites.- 4 Guild structure of larval trematodes in molluscan hosts: prevalence, dominance and significance in competition.- 5 Helminth communities in marine fishes.- 6 Helminth communities in freshwater fish: structured communities of stochastic assemblages?.- 7 Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles: comparative approaches to understanding patterns and processes.- 8 Helminth communities in avian hosts: determinants of pattern.- 9 Helminth community of mammalian hosts: concepts at the infracommunity, component and compound community levels.- 10 Models for multi-species parasite-host communities.- 11 Free-living communities and alimentary tract helminths: hypotheses and pattern analyses.- 12 Concluding remarks.
