| effects of anthropogenic and demographic factors on patterns of parasitism in african small mammal communities. | habitat disturbance often results in alterations in community structure of small mammals. additionally, the parasites harboured by these small mammals may be impacted by environmental changes or indirectly affected by changes in available hosts. to improve our understanding of this interplay, we examined the patterns of parasitism in small mammal communities from a variety of habitats in forested uganda. small mammals were collected from areas experiencing variable habitat disturbance, host dens ... | 2015 | 25262668 |