Reproducibility of local environmental factors for the abundance of questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs on pastures

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 104-110

  Boyard, Chloé ^a   Barnouin, Jacques ^a   Bord, Séverine ^a   Gasqui, Patrick ^a   Vourc'h, Gwenaël ^a  

^a EPIA   (France)

Author keywords

Field studies; Ixodes; Reproducibility; Statistical analysis; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; FRANCE; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PASTURELAND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; IXODES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NYMPH; POPULATION DENSITY;

IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 79957847234     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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