Habitat associations of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Maine

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 900-906

  Lubelczyk, Charles B ^a   Elias, Susan P ^a   Rand, Peter W ^a   Holman, Mary S ^a   Lacombe, Eleanor H ^a   Smith Jr , Robert P ^a  

^a Lyme Disease Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat; Ixodes scapularis; Landscape change

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; HABITAT SELECTION; PEST SPECIES; TICK; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; BERBERIS; BERBERIS THUNBERGII; CERVIDAE; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; EUONYMUS BUNGEANUM; FILICOPHYTA; ILEX; ILEX VERTICILLATA; IXODES; IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; LONICERA; POACEAE; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 4344707347     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.4.900     Document Type: Article

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