Climatically driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1621, 2007, Pages 1963-1969

  Kausrud, Kyrre Linné ^a   Viljugrein, Hildegunn ^a   Frigessi, Arnoldo ^a   Begon, Mike ^b   Davis, Stephen ^c   Leirs, Herwig ^c,d   Dubyanskiy, Vladimir ^e   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^e Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Black death; Central Asia; Climate change; Moran effect; Normalized differentiated vegetation index; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; HOST; MODELING; NDVI; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SYNCHRONY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GERBILLINAE; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 34547202591     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0568     Document Type: Article

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