Parasite traits, host traits, and environment as determinants of dark diversity affinity in flea and gamasid mite assemblages from the Palearctic.

ABSTRACT: A species set in a site comprises species that are present (realized diversity) and species that could inhabit this site but are absent (dark diversity; DD). DD can be both species-driven (a species' traits preclude its presence, independently of site features) and site-driven (site features preclude the species' presence, independently of its traits). DD affinity (DDA) is a measure of species' tendencies to be absent from sites that they could inhabit or of sites' tendencies to lack species that could be present. Decomposition of DDA into DDA for species (dda_sp) and for sites (dda_site) allows (a) disentangling these two mechanisms and (b) detecting species traits and site features contributing to their DDA. The species-site unified model is a Bayesian statistical mod

SUBMITTER: Krasnov BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11599333 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature