Soil chemistries define aquatic habitats with immature populations of the Culicoides variipennis complex (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-64

  Schmidtmann, E T ^a   Bobian, R J ^a   Belden, R P ^a,b  

^a USDA ARS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecology; Aquatic insects; Biting midges; Soil chemistry; Vector distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037530673     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-37.1.58     Document Type: Article

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