Impact of climatic change on the northern latitude limit and population density of the disease-transmitting European tick Ixodes ricinus

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-123

  Lindgren, Elisabet ^a   Tälleklint, Lars ^b   Polfeldt, Thomas ^a,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STATISTICS SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographic distribution; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme disease; Temperature; Tick; Tickborne encephalitis

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COLD CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWEDEN; TICK BORNE DISEASE; WINTER;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; IXODES RICINUS;

EID: 0343384398     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3454509     Document Type: Article

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