The Devil's in the Diversity: Divergent Parasite Faunas and their Impacts on Body Condition in Two Greenland Caribou Populations ...

• Main Author: Steele, Jillian Felise
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2013
• Subjects: Parasitology; Veterinary Science; Zoology; FOS: Biological sciences; Rangifer sp.; Gastrointestinal Parasites; Nematoda; Caribou; Greenland; Invasion Biology; Ostertagia gruehneri; Teladorsagia boreoarcticus; Marshallagia marshalli; Body Condition; Kangerlussuaq; Maniitsoq; Sisimiut; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/28063; https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/handle/11023/420

Parasites are important components of ecosystems; significantly impacting host health, and informing on contemporary and historical host movements and environmental changes. I characterised gastrointestinal parasite faunas and assessed their associations to body condition and fecundity in two popula...