Altitudinal patterns of tick and host abundance: A potential role for climate change in regulating tick-borne diseases?

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 217-225

  Gilbert, Lucy ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deer; Elevation; Ixodes ricinus; Louping ill virus; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ENCEPHALITIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LYME DISEASE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GALLIFORMES; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HARE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IXODES; LARVA; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEER; GALLIFORMES; GEOGRAPHY; HARES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; IXODES; LARVA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NYMPH; POPULATION DENSITY; SCOTLAND; TEMPERATURE; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ARTHROPODA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CERVIDAE; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS SCOTICUS; LEPUS TIMIDUS; LOUPING ILL VIRUS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; TETRAONIDAE; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 77949775773     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1430-x     Document Type: Article

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