Different methods, different results: Temporal trends in the study of nested subset patterns in parasite communities

Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-138

  Timi, J T ^a,b   Poulin, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community structure; Nested subset analyses; Null models; Parasite communities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HOST; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; FISHES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY;

VERMES;

EID: 37249026322     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182007003605     Document Type: Article

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