Ecological factors influencing disease risk in Eagle Owls Bubo bubo

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 386-395

  Ortego, Joaquín ^a   Espada, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECTOPARASITE; FLEDGING; FLY; FOREST COVER; HABITAT QUALITY; HEALTH RISK; HEMOPARASITE; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TICK;

BUBO BUBO; CARNUS; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; LEUCOCYTOZOON; RHIPICEPHALUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 34047107820     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00656.x     Document Type: Article

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