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

Abundance-occupancy and abundance-variance relationships are two of the most general macroecological patterns capturing essential fundamentals of the structuring of species distributions and are widely documented for free-living animal and plant species populations at different spatial scales. Howev...

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Published in:International Journal for Parasitology
Main Authors: Pérez-Del-Olmo, A., Morand, S., Raga, J. A., Kostadinova, A. (Aneta)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Abundance-occupancy relationship
Taylor's power law
Core-satellite hypothesis
Epidemiological abundance-occupancy model
Marine fish parasites
Boops boops
North East Atlantic
Mediterranean
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.09.003
http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0205208
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Summary:Abundance-occupancy and abundance-variance relationships are two of the most general macroecological patterns capturing essential fundamentals of the structuring of species distributions and are widely documented for free-living animal and plant species populations at different spatial scales. However, empirical data for parasites have been gathered using appropriate sampling designs only recently. We performed analyses across species of the variation in infection parameters and patterns of aggregation of the most widespread parasites in the marine sparid fish Boops boops across seven localities of two marine biogeographical regions, the North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

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