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Ecological release in lizard endoparasites from the Atlantic Forest, northeast of the Neotropical Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2020

Adonias A. Martins Teixeira Open the ORCID record for Adonias A. Martins Teixeira [Opens in a new window] ,
Pablo Riul ,
Samuel Vieira Brito ,
João A. Araujo-Filho ,
Diêgo Alves Teles ,
Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida  and
Daniel Oliveira Mesquita
Adonias A. Martins Teixeira*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Pablo Riul
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Samuel Vieira Brito
Affiliation:
Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, BR-222, Km 04, S/N, Boa Vista, CEP 65500-000, Chapadinha, MA, Brazil
João A. Araujo-Filho
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Diêgo Alves Teles
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, Campus Pimenta, CEP 63105-000, Crato, CE, Brazil
Daniel Oliveira Mesquita
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campus I, CEP 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: Adonias A. Martins Teixeira, E-mail: adoniasteixeira01@gmail.com
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Abstract

We compared lizard endoparasite assemblages between the Atlantic Forest and naturally isolated forest enclaves to test the ecological release hypothesis, which predicts that host specificity should be lower (large niche breadth) and parasite abundance should be greater for parasites from isolated forest enclaves (poor assemblages) than for parasites from the coastal Atlantic Forest (rich assemblages). Parasite richness per specimen showed no difference between the isolated and non-isolated areas. Parasite abundance did not differ between the isolated and non-isolated areas but showed a positive relationship with parasite richness considering all areas (isolated and non-isolated). Furthermore, host specificity was positively related to parasite richness. Considering that host specificity is inversely proportional to the host range infected by a parasite, our results indicate that in assemblages with greater parasite richness, parasites tend to infect a smaller range of hosts than do those in simple assemblages. In summary, our study partially supports the ecological release hypothesis: in assemblages with greater parasite richness, lizard parasites from Atlantic Forest are able to increase their parasite abundance (per host), possibly through facilitated infection; however, the amplitude of infected hosts only expands in poor assemblages (lower parasite richness).

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Density compensationecological opportunitiesfacilitated infectionhost specificityniche expansion
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Parasitology , Volume 147 , Issue 4 , April 2020 , pp. 491 - 500
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