Relative importance of host environment, transmission potential and host phylogeny to the structure of parasite metacommunities

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 866-874

  Dallas, Tad ^a   Presley, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; ECTOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE; METAPOPULATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RODENT; TAXONOMY;

COCCIDIA; RODENTIA; VERMES;

EID: 84902549859     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.00707     Document Type: Article

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