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Título: | Fire reduces parasite load in a Mediterranean lizard |
Autor: | Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola CSIC ORCID; Belliure, Josabel; Santos, Xavier; Pausas, J. G. CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 14-jul-2021 | Editor: | Royal Society (Great Britain) | Citación: | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288: 1954 (2021) | Resumen: | Wildfires are a natural disturbance in many ecosystems. However, their effect on biotic interactions has been poorly studied. Fire consumes the vegetation and the litter layer where many parasites spend part of their life cycles. We hypothesize that wildfires reduce habitat availability for parasites with consequent potential benefits for hosts. We tested this for the lizard Psammodromus algirus and its ectoparasites in a Mediterranean ecosystem. We predicted that lizards in recently burned areas would have lower parasite load (cleaning effect) than those in unburned areas and that this phenomenon implies that lizards spending their entire lives in postfire conditions experience a lower level of parasitism than those living in unburned areas. We compared the ectoparasite load of lizards between eight paired burned/unburned sites, including recent (less than 1 year postfire) and older fires (2-4 years). We found that lizards' ectoparasites prevalence was drastically reduced in recently burned areas. Likewise, lizards in older burned areas showed less evidence of past parasitic infections. Fire disrupted the host-parasite interaction, providing the opportunity for lizards to avoid the negative effects of ectoparasites. Our results suggest that wildfires probably fulfil a role in controlling vector-borne diseases and pathogens, and highlight ecological effects of wildfires that have been overlooked. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1230 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/266360 | DOI: | 10.1098/rspb.2021.1230 | ISSN: | 0962-8452 | E-ISSN: | 1471-2954 |
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