Host habitat patchiness and the distance decay of similarity among gastro-intestinal nematode communities in two species of Mastomys (southeastern Senegal)

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 715-720

  Brouat, Carine ^a   Duplantier, Jean Marc ^a  

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

Author keywords

Diversity; Community structure; Geographic distance; Parasite; Rodent

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST LOCATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NEMATODE; PATCHINESS; POPULATION GENETICS; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MURINAE; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SENEGAL;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MURINAE; NEMATODA; POPULATION DENSITY; SENEGAL;

AFRICA; SENEGAL; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

MASTOMYS; MASTOMYS ERYTHROLEUCUS; MASTOMYS NATALENSIS; NEMATODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 34250614351     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0680-8     Document Type: Article

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