Interactions between climate, host refuge use, and tick population dynamics

Parasitology Research

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 214-222

  Kerr, Gregory D ^a   Bull, C Michael ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; LIZARD; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SPRING; SUMMER; TICK;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LIZARDS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TICKS;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA LIMBATUM; IXODIDA; SQUAMATA; TRACHYDOSAURUS RUGOSUS;

EID: 33745744680     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-0110-y     Document Type: Article

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