Biodiversity and disease risk: The case of Lyme disease

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 722-728

  Ostfeld, Richard S ^a   Keesing, Felicia ^a,b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

NORTH AMERICA;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 0034042097     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99014.x     Document Type: Review

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