The decay of similarity with geographical distance in parasite communities of vertebrate hosts

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1609-1615

  Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Distance decay; Geographical range; Internal helminths; Jaccard similarity index; Parasite biodiversity

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; RANGE SIZE; SIMILARITY INDEX; VERTEBRATE;

CANIS LATRANS; CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; ESOX LUCIUS; MAMMALIA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; PERCA FLAVESCENS; PLATYHELMINTHES; PROCYON LOTOR; VERMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141890952     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00949.x     Document Type: Article

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