Comparing climate and vegetation as limiting factors for species ranges of African ticks

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 255-268

  Cumming, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Biogeography; Broad scale ecology; Epidemiology; Ixodidae; Landscape ecology; Limiting factors; Logistic regression; Parasitology; ROC plot; Spatial ecology; Spatial modeling; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIMITING FACTOR; TICK; VEGETATION;

AFRICA;

ACARI; INVERTEBRATA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0036143346     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0255:CCAVAL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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