The decay of similarity with geographical distance in parasite communities of vertebrate hosts

By Robert Poulin. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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Assembly rules of ectoparasite communities across scales: combining patterns of abiotic factors, host composition, geographic space, phylogeny and traits (2015, result): “…fl ea compound communities found in the present study on the continental scale supports the results of earlier studies that showed the occurrence of distance decay of similarity in communities of various parasites (including fl eas) on various hierarchical scales (Poulin 2003, Krasnov et al. 2010).”
Spatial variation in species diversity and composition of flea assemblages in small mammalian hosts: geographical distance or faunal similarity? (2005, methodology): “Similarity values for the composition of flea assemblages were log-transformed, and the transformed values were regressed against either log-transformed or untransformed values of both geographical and faunal distance (Poulin, 2003) using stepwise multiple regression.”
Environment, dispersal and patterns of species similarity (2006, background): “…between rates of decay in species similarity with geographical distance and the dispersal characteristics of 15 groups of animal and plant species; and Poulin (2003) found that the rate of geographical decay in species similarity for parasite communities was not determined by host mobility.”
The Role of Parasitism in Adaptive Radiations—When Might Parasites Promote and When Might They Constrain Ecological Speciation? (2012, background): “Typically, this is seen as a decrease in similarity of parasite species composition with increasing geographical distance among the host populations [49, 50] or even among different”
Distance decay in spectral space in analysing ecosystem β‐diversity (2007, methodology): “…calculated using plant species presence/absence data by means of the Jaccard coefficient (Cj, equation (1)), on the strength of its widespread use (see Wilson and Schmida 1984, Ricotta et al. 2002, Koleff et al. 2003, Legendre et al. 2005 for further discussion on species compositional metrics).”
Beta diversity in relation to dispersal ability for vascular plants in North America (2009, background): “This trend of decreasing similarity with increasing distance between sites is known as the distance decay of similarity (Nekola & White, 1999; Poulin, 2003; Soininen et al ., 2007; Grenouillet et al ., 2008; Morlon et al ., 2008), and was once called ‘the first law of geography’ (Tobler, 1970; see a”
The Impact of Distance on International Tourist Movements (2008, background): “In addition, cultural distance, the degree of cultural similarity between the origin and destination, will also influence movements (Hanink and White 1999, Smith and Xie 2003), with culturally similar destinations attracting more visitors than culturally distant ones.”