Richness, structure and functioning in metazoan parasite communities

Oikos

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 447-460

  Mouillot, David ^a   George Nascimento, Mario ^b   Poulin, Robert ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE LA SANTÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; METAZOAN; PARASITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

METAZOA;

EID: 17444413873     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13590.x     Document Type: Article

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