Not everything is everywhere: The distance decay of similarity in a marine host-parasite system

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 200-209

  Pérez Del Olmo, Ana ^a,b   Fernández, Mercedes ^a   Raga, Juan Antonio ^a   Kostadinova, Aneta ^a,c   Morand, Serge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Abundance distribution relationship; Boops boops; Dispersal; Distance decay; Fish; Mediterranean; North East Atlantic; Parasite communities; Sparidae; Spatial parasitology

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; FISH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BOOPS BOOPS; SPARIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 58449083017     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02000.x     Document Type: Article

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