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Local site differences in survival and parasitism of periwinkles (Littorina sitkana Philippi, 1846)
Authors:Mónica Ayala‐Díaz  Jean M L Richardson  Bradley R Anholt
Institution:1. Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, BC, Canada;2. Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Abstract:The periwinkle, Littorina sitkana, is found throughout the intertidal zone, often in isolated subpopulations. The majority of trematode parasites use snails as intermediate hosts, and decreased survivorship is often observed in snails infected with trematodes. Sampling L. sitkana from four sites in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Canada, we test the effects of parasitic infection on snail survival using maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches using the software MARK and WinBUGS. We found that survival of periwinkles and trematode community composition differed among sites, but survival and trematode prevalence were uncorrelated. WinBUGS performed better than MARK in two ways: (1) by allowing the use of information on known mortality, thus preventing survival overestimation; and (2) by giving more stable estimates while testing the effect of body size on snail survival. Our results suggest that snail survival depends heavily on local environmental factors that may vary greatly within a small geographical region. These findings are important because the majority of experimental studies on survival are done on snails from a single location.
Keywords:Barkley Sound     MARK     Mark‐Release‐Recapture  parasites  snail ecology  WinBUGS
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