Ecosystem health indicators: parasite community ecology of the Eurasian minnow and/or European bullhead in streams
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Invertebrates section
Museum of natural history of the City of Geneva
Muséum d’histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève
Route de Malagnou, 1
1208 Genève

Dr. Isabel Blasco-Costa, isabel.blasco-costa@ville-ge.ch, +41224186387

Topics: Ecology

A healthy ecosystem is characterized by a high diversity of species, whose interactions autoregulate their populations. Parasites contribute to such diversity and autoregulate communities by mediating the interactions among free-living species. This project will characterise parasite populations in two sentinel fish species that are common in our rivers, in order to establish their use as monitoring tools.

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