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Host specificity in phylogenetic and geographic space.
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The multifaceted nature of host specificity is described, the indices available to measure its different facets one at a time or in combination are summarized, and their implications for parasite evolution and disease epidemiology are discussed.About:
This article is published in Trends in Parasitology.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 272 citations till now.read more
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Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals
Kevin J. Olival,Parviez R. Hosseini,Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio,Noam Ross,Tiffany L. Bogich,Peter Daszak +5 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that bats harbour a significantly higher proportion of zoonotic viruses than all other mammalian orders, and the taxa and geographic regions with the largest estimated number of ‘missing viruses’ and ‘ Missing zoonoses’ are identified and therefore of highest value for future surveillance.
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Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest.
Steven W. Kembel,Steven W. Kembel,Timothy K. O’Connor,Holly K. Arnold,Stephen P. Hubbell,S. Joseph Wright,Jessica L. Green +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used high-throughput sequencing to quantify bacterial community structure on the leaves of 57 tree species in a neotropical forest in Panama and tested for relationships between bacterial communities on tree leaves and the functional traits, taxonomy, and phylogeny of their plant hosts.
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The dissimilarity of species interaction networks
Timothée Poisot,Elsa Canard,Elsa Canard,David Mouillot,David Mouillot,Nicolas Mouquet,Dominique Gravel,Dominique Gravel +7 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a general framework to study the dissimilarity of species interaction networks over time, space or environments, allowing both the use of quantitative and qualitative data, and decomposes network Dissimilarity into interactions and species turnover components, so that it is immediately comparable to common measures of β-diversity.
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Coextinction and persistence of dependent species in a changing world
TL;DR: Based on primary extinctions and interactions among species, network models explore extinction cascades and predict and historical evidence reveals that the threat of coextinction is influenced by both host a...
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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology
Steven W. Kembel,Peter Cowan,Matthew R. Helmus,William K. Cornwell,Hélène Morlon,David D. Ackerly,Simon P. Blomberg,Campbell O. Webb +7 more
TL;DR: Picante is a software package that provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing the phylogenetic and trait diversity of ecological communities and performs tests for phylogenetic signal in trait distributions, community structure and species interactions.
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Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity
TL;DR: Calculation of PD for different population subsets shows that protection of populations at either of two extremes of the geographic range of the group can significantly increase the phylogenetic diversity that is protected.
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Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity
TL;DR: In this paper, a unified framework for the assessment of beta diversity, disentangling the contribution of spatial turnover and nestedness to beta-diversity patterns, is provided, which is crucial for our understanding of central biogeographic, ecological and conservation issues.
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Estimating the population size for capture-recapture data with unequal catchability.
TL;DR: A point estimator and its associated confidence interval for the size of a closed population are proposed under models that incorporate heterogeneity of capture probability andumerical results show that the proposed confidence interval performs satisfactorily in maintaining the nominal levels.
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Partitioning diversity into independent alpha and beta components
TL;DR: Shannon measures are shown to be the only standard diversity measures which can be decomposed into meaningful independent alpha and beta components when community weights are unequal.