Remotely sensed environmental variables as indicators of Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) distribution;Variables ambientales registradas por sensores remotos como indicadores de la distribución geográfica de Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)

Ecologia Austral

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-127

  Gorla, David E ^a  

^a Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Transferencia Tecnologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Geographic distribution; Remote sensing; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVHRR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE SENSING;

SOUTH AMERICA;

HETEROPTERA; HETEROPTERA REDUVIIDAE; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 0036980448     PISSN: 03275477     EISSN: 1667782X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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