Potential impacts of climate change on stable flies, investigated along an altitudinal gradient

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-81

  Gilles, J ^a,b,c,d   David, J F ^b   Duvallet, G ^b   Tillard, E ^c  

^a Institut fur Vergleichende Tropenmedizin und Parasitologie   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle pests; Global warming; Husbandry practices; Population dynamics; Stomoxys spp.

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLY; GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; REUNION;

BOS; DIPTERA; MUSCIDAE; STOMOXYS; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS; STOMOXYS NIGER NIGER;

EID: 41549160715     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00717.x     Document Type: Article

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