Effects of an invasive forest pathogen on abundance of ticks and their vertebrate hosts in a California Lyme disease focus

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-100

  Swei, Andrea ^a   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b   Lane, Robert S ^c   Briggs, Cheryl J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease ecology; Habitat disturbance; Indirect effects; Invasive pathogen; Phytophthora ramorum

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISEASE VECTOR; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIZARD; MAMMAL; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; IXODES; LIZARD; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PEROMYSCUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIGMODONTINAE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; CALIFORNIA; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; IXODES; LINEAR MODELS; LIZARDS; LYME DISEASE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIGMODONTINAE; TREES;

CALIFORNIA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CERVIDAE; IXODES; IXODES PACIFICUS; IXODIDA; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA FUSCIPES; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS COLUMBIANUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM; SCELOPORUS OCCIDENTALIS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79551650461     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1796-9     Document Type: Article

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