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William F. Font
Researcher at Southeastern Louisiana University
Publications - 34
Citations - 584
William F. Font is an academic researcher from Southeastern Louisiana University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Bothriocephalus acheilognathi. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 33 publications receiving 547 citations. Previous affiliations of William F. Font include State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry & Texas A&M University.
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Helminth parasites of native Hawaiian freshwater fishes : an example of extreme ecological isolation
William F. Font,David C. Tate +1 more
TL;DR: Parasitological data should be incorporated into management plans for the conservation of native Hawaiian stream fishes as these parasites have been previously demonstrated to cause disease.
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Excess positive associations in communities of intestinal helminths of bats: a refined null hypothesis and a test of the facilitation hypothesis
Jeffrey M. Lotz,William F. Font +1 more
TL;DR: Excess positive associations between helminth species in bats are due to joint presences and absences in hosts rather than to interspecific facilitation, suggesting interspecific facilitation would be supported by observed positive correlations between the intensities of individuals of the species pairs.
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Recruitment-driven, spatially discontinuous communities: a null model for transferred patterns in target communities of intestinal helminths.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the contribution that structure in the source pool of propagules makes to the structure of recruitment-driven target populations and communities, and concluded that unlike a birth-driven population, a recruitmentdriven target population will grow to an asymptotic limit even in the absence of density-dependent processes or reaching carrying capacity.
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The guest playing host: colonization of the introduced mediterranean gecko, hemidactylus turcicus, by helminth parasites in southeastern louisiana
TL;DR: The gecko's generalist diet may have exposed it to a diverse parasite fauna and thus been important in determining the helminths that could colonize, and there was significant variation in community structure among local habitats.
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Seasonal and yearly population dynamics of two exotic helminths, camallanus cotti (nematoda) and bothriocephalus acheilognathi (cestoda), parasitizing exotic fishes in waianu stream, o'ahu, hawaii
TL;DR: Camallanus cotti prevalence and mean abundance remained relatively constant from the summer of 1995 to theSummer of 1999, indicating that levels of this roundworm are stable in Waianu Stream and it appears that B. acheilognathi also is present in stable populations at low levels, even though levels rose sharply during a single year.