ArticleParasitology2022
Regional flea and host assemblages form biogeographic, but not ecological, clusters: evidence for a dispersal-based mechanism as a driver of species composition.
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- Host Trait-Based Patterns of Parasite Species Co-occurrence in Component Communities: A Case Study With Fleas Parasitic on Small Mammals.Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- Environmental and host- and parasite-associated drivers of the flea-mammal interaction network structure differ between biogeographic realms.Parasitology research · 2025Article
- Geographic variation in the determinants of ectoparasite faunas' species richness: fleas and gamasid mites parasitic on small mammals from 6 biogeographic realms.Parasitology · 2025Article
- Congruence between co-occurrence and trait-based networks is scale-dependent: a case study with flea parasites of small mammalian hosts.Parasitology · 2024Article
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- Functional similarity affects similarity in partner composition in flea-mammal networks.Parasitology research · 2024Article
- Relationships between functional alpha and beta diversities of flea parasites and their small mammalian hosts.Parasitology · 2024Article
- Nestedness of flea assemblages harboured by small mammalian hosts revisited: phylogenetic and functional nestedness do not follow compositional nestedness.Parasitology research · 2024Article
- Evoregions of fleas and their small mammalian hosts: Do they coincide?Parasitology · 2023Article
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Abstract
We used data on the species composition of regional assemblages of fleas and their small mammalian hosts from 6 biogeographic realms and applied a novel method of step-down factor analyses (SDFA) and cluster analyses to identify biogeographic (across the entire globe) and ecological (within a realm across the main terrestrial biomes) clusters of these assemblages. We found that, at the global scale, the clusters of regional assemblage loadings on SDFA axes reflected well the assemblage distribution, according to the biogeographic realms to which they belong. At the global scale, the cluster topology, corresponding to the biogeographic realms, was similar between flea and host assemblages, but the topology of subtrees within realm-specific clusters substantially differed between fleas and hosts. At the scale of biogeographic realms, the distribution of regional flea and host assemblages did not correspond to the predominant biome types. Assemblages with similar loadings on SDFA axes were often situated in different biomes and vice versa. The across-biome, within-realm distributions of flea
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