Contrasting drivers of diversity in hosts and parasites across the tropical Andes

SM McNew, LN Barrow, JL Williamson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Geographic turnover in community composition is created and maintained by eco-
evolutionary forces that limit the ranges of species. One such force may be antagonistic …

Climate, host phylogeny and the connectivity of host communities govern regional parasite assembly

NJ Clark, SM Clegg, K Sam, W Goulding… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Identifying barriers that govern parasite community assembly and parasite invasion risk
is critical to understand how shifting host ranges impact disease emergence. We studied …

The latitudinal specialization gradient of bird–malarial parasite networks in South America: lower connectance, but more evenly distributed interactions towards the …

RBP Pinheiro, GMF Felix, JA Bell, A Fecchio - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Whereas the latitudinal diversity gradient has been shown for a diverse set of taxa, a related
macroecological pattern, the latitudinal specialization gradient (LSG), remains controversial …

Diversity, ecosystem function, and stability of parasitoid–host interactions across a tropical habitat gradient

JM Tylianakis, T Tscharntke, AM Klein - Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Global biodiversity decline has prompted great interest in the effects of habitat modification
and diversity on the functioning and stability of ecosystem processes. However, the …

Emphasizing the ecology in parasite community ecology

AB Pedersen, A Fenton - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007 - cell.com
In natural systems, individuals are often co-infected by many species of parasites. However,
the significance of interactions between species and the processes that shape within-host …

Parasite species richness and intensity of interspecific interactions increase with latitude in two wide‐ranging hosts

ME Torchin, O Miura, RF Hechinger - Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Although the latitudinal diversity gradient is a well‐known and general pattern, the
mechanisms structuring it remain elusive. Two key issues limit differentiating these. First …

Anthropogenic disturbance favours generalist over specialist parasites in bird communities: Implications for risk of disease emergence

G Dharmarajan, P Gupta, CK Vishnudas… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Niche theory predicts specialists which will be more sensitive to environmental perturbation
compared to generalists, a hypothesis receiving broad support in free‐living species. Based …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing the drivers of parasite community assembly: using avian haemosporidians to model global dynamics of parasite species turnover

D de Angeli Dutra, RBP Pinheiro, A Fecchio… - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Why do some regions share more or fewer species than others? Community assembly relies
on the ability of individuals to disperse, colonize and thrive in new regions. Therefore, many …

Host diversity drives parasite diversity: meta‐analytical insights into patterns and causal mechanisms

T Kamiya, K O'Dwyer, S Nakagawa, R Poulin - Ecography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical correlations of biodiversity patterns across multiple trophic levels have received
considerable attention in various types of interacting assemblages, forging a universal …

Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi‐host, multi‐parasite system

LN Barrow, SM McNew, N Mitchell, SC Galen… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in susceptibility is ubiquitous in multi‐host, multi‐parasite assemblages, and can
have profound implications for ecology and evolution in these systems. The extent to which …