Understorey predicts the spatial distribution of Ixodes hirsti in South Australia

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-127

  Oorebeek, Margot ^a   Kleindorfer, Sonia ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FITNESS; MICROCLIMATE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TICK; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

IXODES; IXODES HIRSTI; IXODIDA;

EID: 54949125690     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO08050     Document Type: Article

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