Mistletoe macroecology: Spatial patterns in species diversity and host use across Australia

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 459-468

  Kavanagh, Patrick H ^a   Burns, Kevin C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diversity gradients; Host parasite interactions; Loranthaceae; Mistletoes; Parasitism

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HOST RANGE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MACROECOLOGY; PARASITIC PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROPAGULE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA;

LORANTHACEAE; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 84862330349     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01890.x     Document Type: Article

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