When something's messing with your insides and you feel like you're going to hurl, the last thing you probably want to do is eat.
In the almost 60 studies the researchers analyzed, the helminth infections consistently put the caribou off their food, reducing their feeding rates . In turn, this impacted the mammals' body condition and body mass, but on average did not impact their breeding or survival.
"Given that helminth parasites are ubiquitous within free-living populations of ruminants, our findings suggest that global herbivory rates by ruminants are lower than they otherwise would be due to pervasive helminth infections,""In short, diseases of herbivores matter to plants,"Of course, this is just a single example in one system, and experimental fieldwork will be needed to establish the accuracy of the modeling and reveal the true scale of the trophic cascade impacts.
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