Parasites Lost.

PARASITES; TIGERS; MARINE mammal populations; BIOLOGICAL classification; DOLPHINS; TREMATODA; ENDANGERED species listing

In August 2020 parasite ecologist Colin Carlson of Georgetown University, along with Wood, Hopkins and nine others, published a 12-point plan for conserving parasites over the next decade. SAVE THE PARASITES PARASITE INCREASES still get most of the attention - which is why Wood is attuned to parasite decreases and their implications for humans and wildlife. English sole parasites have been surprisingly stable over time, but for those whose populations did shift, not all went up. "Just like for free-living species, some parasite species do well under stress, and others don't", Lafferty says. "Disease ecology and parasite ecology is the now fastest-growing subset of the ecological sciences", says Skylar Hopkins, a parasite ecologist at North Carolina State University. [Extracted from the article]

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