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Provedor de dados: | 97
País: | Chile
Título: | Parasite loads and altitudinal distribution of Liolaemus lizards in the central Chilean Andes
Autores: | CAROTHERS,JOHN H.; JAKSIC,FABIÁN M.
Data: | 2001-09-01
Ano: | 2001
Palavras-chave: | Malaria; Plasmodium; Gut nematodes; Ticks; Mites; Chile; Altitudinal gradient.
Resumo: | This study compared the distributions of ten species of Liolaemus lizards in the central Chilean Andes to the distributions of four types of parasites: malaria-causing Plasmodium, gut nematodes, ticks, and mites. We wanted to see if parasite numbers might be a factor in determining distributional limits of the lizards. We found that there was no evidence of malarial infestation of the lizards, that ticks were almost absent, that more often than not mite numbers decreased at the distributional limits of the lizards, and that gut nematodes confined to the herbivorous lizards in our sample may well be beneficial rather than detrimental. Rather than parasitism, other biotic interactions (e.g., predation or competition) are more likely candidates as factors influencing lizard elevational distributions, as are abiotic characteristics such as microhabitat availabilities and thermal factors
Tipo: | Journal article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2001000300013
Editor: | Sociedad de Biología de Chile
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista chilena de historia natural  v.74 n.3 2001