| helminth communities of three sympatric species of shorebirds (charadrii) from four summer seasons at bristol bay, alaska. | helminth communities in sympatric black turnstones (arenaria melanocephala), ruddy turnstones (arenaria interpres), and dunlin (calidris alpina) were examined over 4 summers in bristol bay, alaska. the compound community, made up of component communities of all 3 species of hosts for 4 summer seasons (n=164), consisted of 43 helminth species, with cestodes, especially anomotaenia clavigera, accounting for 47% of the helminth species and 95% of the abundance. the black turnstone had significantly ... | 2007 | 17626338 |
| mate fidelity and breeding site tenacity in a monogamous sandpiper, the black turnstone. | we examined the relationship between mate fidelity and breeding site tenacity during a 5-year study of the black turnstone, arenaria melanocephala, a socially monogamous sandpiper breeding in subarctic alaska. we tested the predictions of several hypotheses regarding the incidence of divorce and the benefits of fidelity to mate and breeding site. interannual return rates to the breeding grounds (88% for males, 79% for females) were among the highest yet recorded for any scolopacid sandpiper, and ... | 2000 | 11032650 |
| wardium canarisi n. sp. (cestoda: hymenolepididae) parasite of arenaria melanocephala (aves: charadrii) of alaska. | the authors describe and illustrate wardium canarisi n. sp. (cestoda: hymenolepididae), an intestinal parasite of arenaria melanocephala (aves: charadrii) from alaska, characterised by a strobila 20-40 mm long, 10 aploparaksoid hooks 19-21 microm long, a short cylindrical cirrus (40 microm) covered with very minute spines (0.2 microm), and a short (8-18 microm) and extremely narrow (1 microm) copulatory vagina. these characters have no equivalent, even approximate, among the 27 species of wardiu ... | 2000 | 10845655 |
| dichoanotaenia multifilamenta sp. n. (cestoda: dilepididae) from the black turnstone, arenaria melanocephala (vigors), in alaska. | dichoanotaenia multifilamenta sp. n. (cestoda: dilepididae) from the black turnstone, arenaria melanocephala (vigors), in alaska is described. this cestode is distinguished from other species of the genus dichoanotaenia lópez-neyra 1944 mainly by the structure of the cirrus and of the egg. | 1980 | 7193243 |