Drought-induced mosquito outbreaks in wetlands

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1017-1024

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a   Knight, Tiffany M ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Drought; Food web; Mosquito; Outbreak; Precipitation; Predation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; DISEASE VECTOR; DROUGHT; MOSQUITO; PEST OUTBREAK; WETLAND;

ANIMALIA; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 0242490179     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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