Factors affecting the prevalence of blood parasites of Little Owls Athene noctua in southern Portugal

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 63-72

  Tomé, Ricardo ^a   Santos, Nuno ^b   Cardia, Pedro ^c,d   Ferrand, Nuno ^c,d   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Instituto da Conservacao da Natureza   (Portugal)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RAPTOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ATHENE NOCTUA; LEUCOCYTOZOON; LEUCOCYTOZOON ZIEMANNI; STRIGIFORMES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA SP.;

EID: 23044439077     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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