Increased mortality of black-browed albatross chicks at a colony heavily-infested with the tick Ixodes uriae
At Bird Island, South Georgia, we studied the effects of the tick Ixodes uriae on survival of chicks at two colonies of the black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophrys, one where most chicks were infested with ticks, the other where most chicks were tick-free. When the two colonies were compared, it...
Published in: | International Journal for Parasitology |
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Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Elsevier
1999
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503018/ https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7519(99)00088-0 |
Summary: | At Bird Island, South Georgia, we studied the effects of the tick Ixodes uriae on survival of chicks at two colonies of the black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophrys, one where most chicks were infested with ticks, the other where most chicks were tick-free. When the two colonies were compared, it was found that the colony heavily-infested with ticks had significantly greater chick mortality than the colony lightly-infested with ticks. However, within each of the two colonies, there was no significant difference in survival between chicks with ticks and those without ticks. |
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