Effects of urbanisation on disease prevalence and age structure in blackbird Turdus merula populations

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 774-782

  Evans, Karl L ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Sharp, Stuart P ^a,b   McGowan, Andrew ^a,c   Simeoni, Michelle ^a   Hatchwell, Ben J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL; TICK; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

AVES; IXODIDA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 65449147965     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17226.x     Document Type: Article

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