Ecology of hantavirus in a changing world

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1195, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-112

  Dearing, M Denise ^a   Dizney, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Disturbance; Fragmentation; Hantavirus; Invasive species; Landscape alteration; Pathogen transmission

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMENSAL; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HANTAVIRUS; HOST; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HANTAVIRUS; MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 77951988949     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05452.x     Document Type: Review

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