Size, Time, and Asynchrony Matter: The Species–Area Relationship for Parasites of Freshwater Fishes

摘要: Abstract: The tendency to attribute species–area relationships “island biogeography” effectively bypasses the examination of specific mechanisms that act structure parasite communities. Positive covariation between fish size and infrapopulation richness should not be examined within typical extinction-based paradigm, but rather addressed from standpoint differences in colonization potential among individual hosts. Although most producing aforementioned pattern constitute some variation passive sampling, deterministic aspects accumulation individuals by hosts makes untenable suggestion infracommunities freshwater fishes are stochastic assemblages. At component community level, application extinction-dependent might appropriate, given sufficient time for colonization, these structuring forces likely indirectly through their effects on host increase probability pe...