caa a22 4500 386400601 CHVBK 20180307112157.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0031182000061527 doi S0031182000061527 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0031182000061527 Diversity patterns in helminth communities in common gulls, Larus canus [Elektronische Daten] The parameters of species richness, abundance and diversity of the intestinal helminth infracommunities of a sample of 269 Common gulls, Larus canus, were examined over one season at Agdenes, Norway. The communities developed rapidly in unfledged gulls and the diversity parameters were of similar magnitude in immature and adult birds. All parameters were low in the early part of the season, reached maxima in June or July and fluctuated erratically or declined thereafter. Comparison of summary parameters with those from other species of gulls indicated that helminth community diversity in Common gulls is fairly typical of gulls in general. In gulls as a group, helminth communities show common features of high species richness, low abundance, few or no core species and a number of species that occur rarely and in low numbers. Expectations of particularly high parasite community diversity were not fully realised because species lists and diversity of the component community are not a very good basis for predicting diversity at the infracommunity level. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Larus canus nationallicence diversity patterns nationallicence helminth infracommunities nationallicence Kennedy C. R. Department of Biological Sciences, The University, Exeter EX4 4PS, UK Bakke T. A. Zoological Museum, Sars Gt 1, N-0562 Oslo 5, Norway Parasitology Cambridge University Press 98/3(1989-06), 439-445 0031-1820 98:3<439 1989 98 PAR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000061527 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000061527 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kennedy C. R. Department of Biological Sciences, The University, Exeter EX4 4PS, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bakke T. A. Zoological Museum, Sars Gt 1, N-0562 Oslo 5, Norway NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Parasitology Cambridge University Press 98/3(1989-06), 439-445 0031-1820 98:3<439 1989 98 PAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge