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Scale-dependent effects of host patch traits on species composition in a stickleback parasite metacommunity.
Ecology - 1 Dec 2020
Bolnick Daniel I, Resetarits Emlyn J, Ballare Kimberly, Stuart Yoel E, Stutz William E
Abstract excerpt
A core goal of ecology is to understand the abiotic and biotic variables that regulate species distributions and community composition. A major obstacle is that the rules governing species distributions can change with spatial scale. Here, we illustrate this point using data from a spatially nested metacommunity of parasites infecting a metapopulation of threespine stickleback fish from 34 lakes on Vancouver...
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