Are predators good for your health? Evaluating evidence for top-down regulation of zoonotic disease reservoirs

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-20

  Ostfeld, Richard S ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042710970     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0013:APGFYH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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