The comparative ecology and biogeography of parasites

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1576, 2011, Pages 2379-2390

  Poulin, Robert ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^b   Mouillot, David ^c   Thieltges, David W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance decay of similarity; Geographical range; Host specificity; Latitude; Life cycles; Phylogenetic signal

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COEVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FLATWORM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NICHE BREADTH; PARASITE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RANGE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PHYLO; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); VERMES;

EID: 79960542517     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0048     Document Type: Review

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