Ecological Parasitology

Professor Gerald W Esch, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parasitology (American Society of Parasitologists).

Preface viii

Acknowledgments xi

The Players xii

1 The Beginning 1

2 The End of the Beginning 18

3 Gull Lake and the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station 28

4 Gull Lake and the Connection with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory 40

5 Development of Some Conceptual Notions 52

6 The Pond: Part I 62

7 The Pond: Part II 79

8 The Big Lake 92

9 The Strigeids 104

10 Some Small Streams and Small Ponds 112

11 Red Sore Disease 121

12 The End, Almost 131

13 The Catastrophic Collapse of the Larval Trematode Component Community in Charlie’s Pond (North Carolina) 144

14 An Epilogue: What’s Involved with Graduate School? 155