Tracking the assembly of nested parasite communities: Using β ‐diversity to understand variation in parasite richness and composition over time and scale

Community composition is driven by a few key assembly processes: ecological selection, drift and dispersal. Nested parasite communities represent a powerful study system for understanding the relative importance of these processes and their relationship with biological scale. Quantifying β ‐diversity across scales and over time additionally offers mechanistic insights into the ecological processes shaping the distributions of parasites and...