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
• Other Authors: Kutz, Susan, Orsel, Karin
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2013
• Subjects: Parasitology; Veterinary Science; Zoology; Rangifer sp; Gastrointestinal Parasites; Nematoda; Caribou; Greenland; Invasion Biology; Ostertagia gruehneri; Teladorsagia boreoarcticus; Marshallagia marshalli; Body Condition; Kangerlussuaq; Maniitsoq; Sisimiut; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11023/420; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28063

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...