The relationships between habitat topology, critical scales of connectivity and tick abundance Ixodes ricinus in a heterogeneous landscape in northern Spain

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 661-671

  Estrada Peña, Agustin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; HABITAT MOSAIC; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; TICK; TOPOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ACARI; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDAE; QUERCUS;

EID: 0345393826     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03530.x     Document Type: Article

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