A Few Good Reasons Why Species-Area Relationships Do Not Work for Parasites

Figure 1

Histogram showing the distribution of the number of parasite species per host species obtained using all available data from FishPEST database (i.e., 33143 host parasite records, 4650 host species, and 11802 parasite species) [49–51]. The most recurrent situation is that of hosts used by only one parasite species.