Khabibullin V.F. ON JUSTIFICATION OF PARASITISM TRAIT "CAUSING HOST DAM-AGE"We can justify the concept "causing host damage" as essential to parasitism in three ways. The inductive approach leaves uncertainty upon whether this characteris-tic is obligatory to all examined hosts. The traductive approach is useful as far as it enables discrimination between parasitism, mutualism, neutralism and commensal-ism. In the deductive approach the trait "causing host damage" can be obtained from the "result scheme": the placement of parasitism in the "+-" box means the benefit for one partner (parasite) and damage to another (host). This trait can also be derived from the system of direct trophic relationships, indirect partner relationships, but not from the system "organism-environment". The concept "damage threshold" is also discussed.Key words: parasitism traits, causing damage to host.
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