Deer browse resistant exotic-invasive understory: An indicator of elevated human risk of exposure to Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in southern coastal Maine woodlands

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1142-1152

  Elias, Susan P ^a   Lubelczyk, Charles B ^a   Rand, Peter W ^a   Lacombe, Eleanor H ^a   Holman, Mary S ^a   Smith Jr , Robert P ^a  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacklegged ticks; Deer browse resistant exotic invasive plants; Habitat; Hosts; Ixodes scapularis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TICK; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; IXODIDAE; LINEAR MODELS; MAINE; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BERBERIS; BERBERIS THUNBERGII; CERVIDAE; CRICETIDAE; FILICOPHYTA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 33845249133     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585(2006)43[1142:DBREUA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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