Nested subset analyses of colonization-dominated communities: Metazoan ectoparasites of marine fishes

Oikos

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 471-478

  Worthen, Wade B ^a   Rohde, Klaus ^b  

^a FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAZOA; PISCES;

COLONIZATION-DOMINATED; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECTOPARASITES; NESTEDNESS;

EID: 0030304975     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545888     Document Type: Article

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