Biodiversity loss decreases parasite diversity: theory and patterns
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Biodiversity loss decreases parasite diversity: theory and patterns
Past models have suggested host-parasite coextinction could lead to linear, or concave down relationships between free-living species richness and parasite richness. I explored several models for the relationship between parasite richness and biodiversity loss. Life cycle complexity, low generality of parasites and sensitivity of hosts reduced the robustness of parasite species to the loss of f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0110