Predicting the population dynamics of the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Acari: Pyroglyphidae) in response to a constant hygrothermal environment using a model of the mite life cycle

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 61-86

  Biddulph, Phillip ^a,e   Crowther, David ^a   Leung, Brian ^b   Wilkinson, Toby ^a,c   Hart, Barbara ^d   Oreszczyn, Tadj ^e   Pretlove, Stephen ^f   Ridley, Ian ^e   Ucci, Marcella ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Medical Entomology Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

House dust mites; Life cycle; Population model; Population structure; Relative humidity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIFE CYCLE; MITE; MODEL VALIDATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

ACARI; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 33947515449     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-007-9056-3     Document Type: Article

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