Browsing by Author "Poulin, Robert"
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How parasites divide resources: a test of the niche apportionment hypothesis
George-Nascimento, Mario; Poulin, Robert; Mouillot, David (2003)Modelling species abundance patterns, i.e. the distribution of relative abundance among species within the same community, has become a common framework in community ecology. To describe species abundance patterns several ... -
Richness, structure and functioning in metazoan parasite communities
Mouillot, David; George-Nascimento, Mario; Poulin, Robert (2005)Ecosystem functioning, characterized by components such as productivity and stability, has been extensively linked with diversity in recent years, mainly in plant ecology. The aim of our study was thus to quantify general ... -
Testing the energetic equivalence rule with helminth endoparasites of vertebrates
George-Nascimento, Mario; Muñoz, Gabriela; Marquet, Pablo A.; Poulin, Robert (2004)As a general test of the energetic equivalence rule, we examined macroecological relationships among abundance, density and host body mass in a comparative analysis of the assemblages of trophically transmitted endoparasitic ... -
The relationship between species richness and productivity in metazoan parasite communities
George-Nascimento, Mario; Poulin, Robert; Mouillot, David (2003)Biodiversity is not distributed homogeneously in space, and it often covaries with productivity. The shape of the relationship between diversity and productivity, however, varies from a monotonic linear increase to a ... -
The scaling of total parasite biomass with host body mass
Poulin, Robert; George-Nascimento, Mario (2007)The selective pressure exerted by parasites on their hosts will to a large extent be influenced by the abundance or biomass of parasites supported by the hosts. Predicting how much parasite biomass can be supported by host ...