Relationships between local and regional species richness in flea communities of small mammalian hosts: Saturation and spatial scale

Parasitology Research

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 403-413

  Krasnov, Boris R ^a   Stanko, Michal ^b   Khokhlova, Irina S ^a   Miklisova, Dana ^b   Morand, Serge ^c   Shenbrot, Georgy I ^a   Poulin, Robert ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLEA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SLOVAKIA; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FLEAS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECTIVORA; LAGOMORPHA; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA;

MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 33645230730     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0049-z     Document Type: Article

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