Applications of a climatic water budget to tick-borne disease research

Physical Geography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 480-488

  Rodgers, Sarah E ^a   Zolnik, Christine P ^a   Brewer, Michael J ^b   Mather, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; Soil moisture; Tick abundance; Water budget

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IXODIDA;

EID: 34247529256     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.26.6.480     Document Type: Article

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