Climate or host availability: What determines the seasonal abundance of ticks?

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 871-875

  Oorebeek, Margot ^a   Kleindorfer, Sonia ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HOST; HUMIDITY; IXODES; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; IXODES; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TEMPERATURE; TICK INFESTATIONS;

AVES; IXODES HIRSTI; IXODIDA;

EID: 48349087471     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1071-8     Document Type: Article

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