Simulation of host-parasite-landscape interactions: Influence of season and habitat on cattle fever tick (Boophilus sp.) population dynamics in rotational grazing systems

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 87-97

  Teel, P D ^a   Marin, S ^b   Grant, W E ^a   Stuth, J W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Boophilus; Cattle grazing; Ixodidae; Pasture rotation; Tick ecology

Indexed keywords

BOOPHILUS; ACARI; BOOPHILUS ANNULATUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS;

CATTLE FEVER TICK; GRAZING SYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PARASITE-LANDSCAPE INTERACTION; PARASITE INFESTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030617668     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)00076-2     Document Type: Article

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