Species abundance patterns and the distribution of specialization in host–parasite interaction networks
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1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. E-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1-805-892-2522; fax: +1-805-892-2510. 2 Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, U.M.R. 5175, 1919 Route de Mende, F34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. 3 Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. Email: [email protected]. 4 Ramon Science Center and Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 194, Mizpe Ramon 80600, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected].
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