Home range and parasite diversity in mammals

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 467-474

  Bordes, Frédéric ^a   Morand, Serge ^a,b   Kelt, Douglas A ^c   Van Vuren, Dirk H ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Density; Epidemiology; Home range; Mammals; Parasite diversity

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HABITAT USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HELMINTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAMMAL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; HELMINTHS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GLIRES; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; UNGULATA; VERMES;

EID: 63449129761     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597227     Document Type: Article

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