Spatially explicit predictions of blood parasites in a widely distributed African rainforest bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1708, 2011, Pages 1025-1033

  Sehgal, R N M ^a,b   Buermann, W ^b   Harrigan, R J ^b   Bonneaud, C ^b,d   Loiseau, C ^a,b   Chasar, A ^a,b   Sepil, I ^b,e   Valkiunas, G ^c   Iezhova, T ^c   Saatchi, S ^b   Smith, T B ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Maxent; Plasmodium; Predictive maps; Random forest; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIRD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT TYPE; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOT SPOT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AFRICA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; ENVIRONMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WEATHER;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; MALARIA, AVIAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WEATHER;

EID: 79958723487     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1720     Document Type: Article

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