Abundance-variance and abundance-occupancy relationships in a marine host-parasite system: The importance of taxonomy and ecology of transmission

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 41, Issue 13-14, 2011, Pages 1361-1370

  Pérez del Olmo, Ana ^a,b   Morand, Serge ^c   Raga, Juan Antonio ^d   Kostadinova, Aneta ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Abundance occupancy relationship; Boops boops; Core satellite hypothesis; Epidemiological abundance occupancy model; Marine fish parasites; Mediterranean; North east atlantic; Taylor's power law

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; FISH; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MACROECOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISH DISEASES; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITES; PERCIFORMES; SEAWATER;

ANIMALIA; BOOPS BOOPS; METAZOA; SPARIDAE;

EID: 82355191567     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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