Effect of forest fragmentation on lyme disease risk

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 267-272

  Allan, Brian F ^a   Keesing, Felicia ^b   Ostfeld, Richard S ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRAGMENTATION; HEALTH RISK; LYME DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACARI; ACER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037327524     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01260.x     Document Type: Article

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