Parasites dominate food web links.

By K. Lafferty, A. Dobson, A. Kuris. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

783 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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How researchers see this paper

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In Ecology

1. K. Lafferty
2. M. Zapalski
3. A. Kuris
4. A. Dobson
5. R. Hechinger
6. Walter Jetz
7. Daniel B. Stouffer
8. Peer Bork

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Zapalski
2. J. Memmott
3. U. Brose
4. K. Lafferty
5. Daniel B. Stouffer
6. Björn C. Rall
7. Sonia Kefi
8. Jordi Bascompte

In Genetics

1. M. Zapalski
2. K. Lafferty
3. J. Memmott
4. U. Brose
5. A. Kuris
6. Björn C. Rall
7. Sonia Kefi
8. A. Dobson

Citations in the corpus

• Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts? (2008, background): “We have been undertaking this for salt marshes along the coasts of California and Baja, Mexico (28, 29, 64).”
• Is absence of proof a proof of absence? Comments on commensalism (2011, positive): “natural food webs probably involve parasites (Lafferty et al., 2006; Dobson et al., 2008).”
• Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean (2015, background): “complexity of pelagic food webs (66, 67) while contributing to the carbon quota of their larger, longer-lived, and often biomineralized symbiotic”
• Trematode parasites of Otago Harbour (New Zealand) soft‐sediment intertidal ecosystems: Life cycles, ecological roles and DNA barcodes (2009, background): “2005; Thieltges 2006), they can be important drivers of host population dynamics, community structure, and foodweb stability (Sousa 1991; Mouritsen & Poulin 2002; Thompson et al. 2005; Lafferty et al. 2006; Wood et al. 2007).”
• The Robustness and Restoration of a Network of Ecological Networks (2012, background): “Currently, understanding of 38 species’ interaction networks is mostly limited to partial subsets of whole ecosystems (but see 39 (4, 5)).”
• Supporting Online Material for Evolutionary Conservation of Species' Roles in Food Webs (2012, background): “(43) Chesapeake 31 8 Baird & Ulanowicz (44) Coachella 29 20 Polis (45) Dempsters 107 5 Townsend et al.”
• Ecosystem consequences of fish parasites (2008, background): “Comparing the topological properties of food webs, such as connectance, chain length and nestedness in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh food web before and after adding parasites shows parasites have dramatic effects on web topology ( Lafferty et al., 2006b ).”
• Delay-induced chaos and its possible control in a seasonally forced eco-epidemiological model with fear effect and predator switching (2021, background): “Being an integral component of trophic ecosystems, parasites often modulate the shape of the ecological communities through the trait-mediated indirect effects on their hosts, when the hosts are typically abundant or ecologically influential [12,13].”