Climate or hosts? Factors determining flea species composition at a local versus a regional scale in the Palearctic

B. R. Krasnov; I. S. Khokhlova

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Climate or hosts? Factors determining flea species composition at a local versus a regional scale in the Palearctic

B. R. Krasnov, I. S. Khokhlova

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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The environment may act as a "filter", allowing a community to
contain only species possessing traits necessary for persistence in that
environment. Parasites are characterized by a "dual" environment,
namely by their hosts and by abiotic (e.g., climatic) factors. We
investigated the role of environmental filtering as an underlying
mechanism of assembly of compound communities of fleas parasitic
on Palearctic small mammals at two spatial scales: a continental scale
(across the Palearctic) and a regional scale (within Slovakia).

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	E117-E117
Number of pages	1
Journal	Integrative and Comparative Biology
Volume	56
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw002
State	Published - Mar 2016

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