Combining climatic projections and dispersal ability: A method for estimating the responses of sandfly vector species to climate change

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Fischer, Dominik ^a   Moeller, Philipp ^a   Thomas, Stephanie M ^a   Naucke, Torsten J ^b,c,d   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Parasitus Ex EV   (Germany)

^d LABOKLIN GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DISEASE CARRIER; EUROPE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HABITAT SELECTION; ITALY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS ARIASI; PHLEBOTOMUSM MASCITTII; PHLEBOTOMUSM NECLECTUS; PHLEBOTOMUSM PERFILIEWI; PHLEBOTOMUSM PERNICIOSUS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PSYCHODIDAE; SLOVENIA; SWITZERLAND; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE VECTORS; GERMANY; PHLEBOTOMUS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 82555169355     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001407     Document Type: Article

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