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Ecological drivers of helminth infection patterns in the Virunga Massif mountain gorilla population

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F22%3A00552791" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/22:00552791 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/60077344:_____/22:00568902 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10448789 RIV/00216224:14310/22:00128100 RIV/60460709:41210/22:92539 RIV/62157124:16170/22:43879907

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224422000074?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224422000074?via%3Dihub</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.01.007" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.01.007</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Ecological drivers of helminth infection patterns in the Virunga Massif mountain gorilla population

  • Original language description

    The Virunga Massif mountain gorilla population has been periodically monitored since the early 1970s, with gradually increasing effort. The population declined drastically in the 1970s, but the numbers stabilized in the 1980s. Since then, the population has been steadily increasing within their limited habitat fragment that is surrounded by a dense human population. We examined fecal samples collected during the Virunga 2015–2016 surveys in monitored and unmonitored gorilla groups and quantified strongylid and tapeworm infections using egg counts per gram to determine environmental and host factors that shape these helminth infections. We showed that higher strongylid infections were present in gorilla groups with smaller size of the 500-m buffered minimum-convex polygon (MCP) of detected nest sites per gorilla group, but in higher gorilla densities and inhabiting vegetation types occurring at higher elevations with higher precipitation and lower temperatures. On the contrary, the impact of monitoring (habituation) was minor, detected in tapeworms and only when in the interaction with environmental variables and MCP area. Our results suggest that the Virunga mountain gorilla population may be partially regulated by strongylid nematodes at higher gorilla densities. New health challenges are probably emerging among mountain gorillas because of the success of conservation efforts, as manifested by significant increases in gorilla numbers in recent decades, but few possibilities for the population expansion due to limited amounts of habitat.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA18-24345S" target="_blank" >GA18-24345S: Epidemiology and pathological effects of gastrointestinal helminthiases in critically endangered mountain gorillas</a><br>

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

  • ISSN

    2213-2244

  • e-ISSN

    2213-2244

  • Volume of the periodical

    17

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    APR

  • Country of publishing house

    AU - AUSTRALIA

  • Number of pages

    11

  • Pages from-to

    174-184

  • UT code for WoS article

    000748397900002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85123620067