Modeling the effects of reservoir competence decay and demographic turnover in Lyme disease ecology

Ecological Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1142-1162

  Schauber, Eric M ^a,b   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Black legged ticks; Borrelia burgdorferi; Community composition; Demographic turnover; Dilution effect; Epidemiological models; Host parasite interaction; Ixodes ricinus complex; Lyme disease; Mathematical models; Reservoir competence; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LYME DISEASE;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036707198     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1142:MTEORC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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