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Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?

Overview of attention for article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, July 2006
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6 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
6 tweeters
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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411 Dimensions

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1104 Mendeley
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Title
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?
Published in
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, July 2006
DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2006.04.007
Pubmed ID
16713014
Authors

Peter J. Hudson, Andrew P. Dobson, Kevin D. Lafferty

Abstract

Historically, the role of parasites in ecosystem functioning has been considered trivial because a cursory examination reveals that their relative biomass is low compared with that of other trophic groups. However there is increasing evidence that parasite-mediated effects could be significant: they shape host population dynamics, alter interspecific competition, influence energy flow and appear to be important drivers of biodiversity. Indeed they influence a range of ecosystem functions and have a major effect on the structure of some food webs. Here, we consider the bottom-up and top-down processes of how parasitism influences ecosystem functioning and show that there is evidence that parasites are important for biodiversity and production; thus, we consider a healthy system to be one that is rich in parasite species.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 28 3%
Brazil 15 1%
Mexico 7 <1%
South Africa 6 <1%
France 6 <1%
Chile 5 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Poland 4 <1%
Other 34 3%
Unknown 989 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 288 26%
Researcher 205 19%
Student > Master 192 17%
Student > Bachelor 120 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 59 5%
Other 189 17%
Unknown 51 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 754 68%
Environmental Science 155 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 37 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 15 1%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 13 1%
Other 44 4%
Unknown 86 8%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 84. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2019.
All research outputs
#200,117
of 13,603,158 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#119
of 2,269 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,180
of 190,238 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Ecology & Evolution
#6
of 30 outputs
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