Scaling up from epidemiology to biogeography: Local infection patterns predict geographical distribution in fish parasites

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1157-1166

  Poulin, Robert ^a   Blanar, Christopher A ^b,c   Thieltges, David W ^d   Marcogliese, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Geographical range; Life cycles; Local abundance; Metazoan parasites; North America

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERALIST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LIFE CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIALIST; TELEOST;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; METAZOA;

EID: 84861186292     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02667.x     Document Type: Article

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