Parasitic worms: how many really?
Current methods used to predict parasite biodiversity do not consider that both the distribution of parasite species richness per host species, and the distribution of the number of host species used by a parasite species are severely skewed. Here we propose a new, more refined approach that estimates parasite richness by randomly resampling the existing databases in order to model the relationship between the number of examined hosts and the number of parasites species retrieved. We applied this method to several large host-parasite lists, demonstrating that current predictions are likely to overestimate global parasite diversity.
STRONA Giovanni;
FATTORINI Simone;
2014-03-31
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
JRC84760
0020-7519,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020751914000277,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC84760,
10.1016/ j.ijpara.2014.01.002,
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