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Host and environmental factors differentially affect patterns of diversity in specialist and generalist parasites

2026-06-12

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Aim</h4> Elucidating the mechanisms shaping parasite diversity patterns is critical because parasites encompass about 40% of known species, and are crucial for ecosystem structure and function. In free-living species, diversity patterns in the Anthropocene are shaped by niche-breadth because specialists (narrow niche-breadth taxa) are more sensitive to environmental disturbance compared to...

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Literature Corpus work: 04129f8b-db37-5d8a-885d-c11ba4fc06b6
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.10.731414

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