Landscape setting and risk of Ranavirus mortality events

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2679-2689

  Gahl, Megan K ^a   Calhoun, Aram J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acadia National Park, USA; Akaike's information criterion; Amphibian disease; Catchment position; Landscape epidemiology; Perkinsus like organism

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; AMPHIBIAN; AUTOCORRELATION; CATCHMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEADWATER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LARVA; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRAL DISEASE;

ACADIA NATIONAL PARK; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; IRIDOVIRUS; PERKINSUS; RANAVIRUS;

EID: 53649090130     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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