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

0371765 - BC 2012 RIV AU eng J - Journal Article
Pérez-Del-Olmo, A. - Morand, S. - Raga, J. A. - Kostadinova, Aneta
Abundance–variance and abundance–occupancy relationships in a marine host–parasite system: The importance of taxonomy and ecology of transmission.
International Journal for Parasitology. Roč. 41, 13/14 (2011), 1361-1370. ISSN 0020-7519. E-ISSN 1879-0135
R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP505/10/1562
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60220518
Keywords : Abundance-occupancy relationship * Taylor's power law * Core-satellite hypothesis * Epidemiological abundance-occupancy model * Marine fish parasites * Boops boops * North East Atlantic * Mediterranean
Subject RIV: GJ - Animal Vermins ; Diseases, Veterinary Medicine
Impact factor: 3.393, year: 2011

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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