Sampling Effects and Host Ranges in Australian Mistletoes

Biotropica

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 656-658

  Grenfell, Matt ^a   Burns, Kevin C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Geographic range; Macroecology; Parasite

Indexed keywords

HOST RANGE; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MACROECOLOGY; PARASITIC PLANT; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE SIZE; SHRUB;

VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 70449466951     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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