Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs
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Consumers indirectly increase infection risk in grassland food webs.
Most pathogens exist within complicated food webs of interacting hosts, vectors, competitors, and predators. Although theory has demonstrated a variety of mechanisms by which predation and competition in food webs can indirectly control infection risk in hosts, there have until now been no experimental tests of this theory. We sampled the effect of long-term exclusion of large vertebrate herbiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808778106