Understanding the relationships between landscape connectivity and abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 28, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 239-248

  Estrada Peña, Agustín ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Habitat; Ixodes ricinus ticks; Network; Patch; Spain

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT MOSAIC; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFESTATION; IXODES; POPULATION DENSITY; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; IXODES; POPULATION DENSITY; SPAIN; TICK INFESTATIONS;

SPAIN;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0141569390     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025362903620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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