Host diversity and latitude drive trematode diversity patterns in the European freshwater fauna

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 675-682

  Thieltges, David W ^a   Hof, Christian ^b   Dehling, D Matthias ^c,e   Brändle, Martin ^c   Brandl, Roland ^c   Poulin, Robert ^d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allogenic parasites; Autogenic parasites; Beta diversity; Europe; Freshwater; Latitudinal gradients; Macroecology; Parasitism; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CORRELATION; DIVERSITY INDEX; FAUNA; FLATWORM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GASTROPOD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MACROECOLOGY; PARASITE; PARASITISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EUROPE;

GASTROPODA; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960521435     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00631.x     Document Type: Article

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