The role of resource availability and state-dependence in the foraging strategy of blood-feeding mosquitoes

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1111-1130

  Ma, Brian O ^a   Roitberg, Bernard D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Anopheles gambiae; Dynamic state variable model; Foraging behaviour; Mosquitoes; Omnivores; Resource availability; State dependence; Vector borne disease control

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

EID: 60549117585     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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