Parasite abundance-occupancy relationships across biogeographic regions: Joint effects of niche breadth, host availability and climate

Konstans Wells; Jeffrey A Bell; Alan Fecchio; Serguei Vyacheslavovich Drovetski; Spencer C Galen; Shannon Hackett; Holly L Lutz; Heather Skeen; Gary Voelker; Wanyoike Wamiti; Jason D Weckstein; Nicholas J. Clark

doi:10.1111/jbi.15015

Parasite abundance-occupancy relationships across biogeographic regions: Joint effects of niche breadth, host availability and climate

Journal of Biogeography

By: Konstans Wells, Jeffrey A Bell, Alan Fecchio, Serguei Vyacheslavovich Drovetski, Spencer C Galen, Shannon Hackett, Holly L Lutz, Heather Skeen, Gary Voelker, Wanyoike Wamiti, Jason D Weckstein, and Nicholas J. Clark

https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15015

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Abstract

Changing biodiversity and environmental conditions may allow multi-host pathogens to spread among host species and affect prevalence. There are several widely acknowledged theories about mechanisms that may influence variation in pathogen prevalence, including the controversially debated dilution effect and abundance-occupancy relationship hypotheses. Here, we explore such abundance-occupancy relationships for unique lineages of three vector-borne avian blood parasite genera (the avian malaria parasite Plasmodium and the related haemosporidian parasites Parahaemoproteus and Leucocytozoon) across biogeographical regions.

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Publication type	Article
Publication Subtype	Journal Article
Title	Parasite abundance-occupancy relationships across biogeographic regions: Joint effects of niche breadth, host availability and climate
Series title	Journal of Biogeography
DOI	10.1111/jbi.15015
Edition	Online First
Year Published	2024
Language	English
Publisher	Wiley
Contributing office(s)	Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center
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