Biological control agents elevate hantavirus by subsidizing deer mouse populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 443-450

  Pearson, Dean E ^a,b   Callaway, Ragan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Centaurea maculosa; Disease ecology; Food subsidies; Hantavirus; Indirect effects; Invasive species; Non target effects; Peromyscus maniculatus; Urophora

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST SPECIFICITY; NONTARGET ORGANISM; RODENT; VIRAL DISEASE; WEED CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CENTAUREA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PEROMYSCUS; PEST CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTOR; TEPHRITIDAE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CENTAUREA; FOOD CHAIN; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PEROMYSCUS; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; TEPHRITIDAE;

NORTH AMERICA;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA MACULOSA; CERVIDAE; CRICETINAE; HANTAVIRUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; UROPHORA;

EID: 33645338432     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00896.x     Document Type: Article

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