Richness, nestedness, and randomness in parasite infracommunity structure

Oecologia

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 545-551

  Poulin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Helminth assemblages; Nestedness; Parasite infracommunity; Randomness; Richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030038992     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00330018     Document Type: Article

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