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Helminth community from Azara's grass mouse (Akodon azarae) in three habitats with different land use in farming systems of Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2018

M.H. Miño ,
E.J. Rojas Herrera ,
J. Notarnicola  and
K. Hodara
M.H. Miño*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA, UBA-CONICET), C1428EGA Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
E.J. Rojas Herrera
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA, UBA-CONICET), C1428EGA Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
J. Notarnicola
Affiliation:
Instituto de Biología Subtropical IBS (CCT Nordeste-CONICET), 3370 Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina
K. Hodara
Affiliation:
Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía (UBA), C1417DSE Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
*
Author for correspondence: M.H. Miño, E-mail: mminio@ege.fcen.uba.ar
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Abstract

In the Pampa region of Argentina, farming activities have been performed since the beginning of the 20th century, but in the 1990s, land-use patterns rapidly changed towards intensive agriculture and poultry breeding. This study compares the helminth community of Akodon azarae (Rodentia) among three habitats with different land use in pampean agroecosystems: poultry farms, mono-cultivated fields and abandoned fields (not used for 35 years), under the prediction that there will be greater helminth richness and diversity in mice from abandoned fields compared to those from the other habitats. Nevertheless, the highest abundance of A. azarae occurred on poultry farms, the habitat most disturbed by human activity, while cultivated fields showed the lowest. Helminth richness and diversity were significantly higher on poultry farms than in the other habitats, due to the presence of Trichuris laevitestis, Protospirura numidica criceticola and cysts of Taenia taeniaeformis. We suggest that the helminth fauna of A. azarae can survive on poultry farms despite disturbance from farming activities, because rodents can move and get shelter within farm perimeter fences, where dense and high vegetation grows. This farm area could offer good conditions for geohelminth development, while chicken sheds could attract insects that are intermediate hosts of helminths with indirect life cycles. On the contrary, agrochemicals applied in cultivated fields would negatively influence helminth diversity and composition, by decreasing host populations (arthropods and rodents) and affecting free larval stages of geohelminths.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 93 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 187 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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