Co-occurrence of ectoparasites of marine fishes: A null model analysis

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 86-94

  Gotelli, Nicholas J ^a   Rohde, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Ectoparasite communities; Niche saturation; Null model analysis; Presence absence matrix; Species co occurrence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECTOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036169071     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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