caa a22 4500 386399530 CHVBK 20180307112153.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0031182000059783 doi S0031182000059783 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0031182000059783 Spatial and temporal variation in the infracommunity structure of helminths of Apodemus sylvaticus(Rodentia: Muridae) [Elektronische Daten] Mean species richness and diversity of the helminth infracommunity of Apodemus sylvaticus in woodland areas of Co. Down, Northern Ireland, varied in time and space. Variation in infracommunity structure among individual hosts, however, always accounted for more than 60% of the variation in the data from different places or different times. Helminth species richness increased with increasing population density, the percentage of the host population 16 weeks old or older, and the proportion of the host population with animal material in their stomachs, at two sites monitored over 33 months. The basis for spatial variation in infracommunity structure is less certain but host dynamics and differences in diet are likely to play some role. It is concluded that analysis at the infracommunity level focuses closely on the potential for species interactions and overlap in resource utilization. Infracommunity structure, at least in the case of A. sylvaticus, varies markedly in time and space and between individual hosts. Such variation should not be ignored in comparative studies. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Intestinal helminths nationallicence community structure nationallicence rodents nationallicence Montgomery S. S. J. Department of Biology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN Montgomery W. I. Department of Biology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN Parasitology Cambridge University Press 98/1(1989-02), 145-150 0031-1820 98:1<145 1989 98 PAR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000059783 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000059783 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Montgomery S. S. J. Department of Biology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Montgomery W. I. Department of Biology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Parasitology Cambridge University Press 98/1(1989-02), 145-150 0031-1820 98:1<145 1989 98 PAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge