Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1249, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 211-226

  Lapointe, Dennis A ^a   Atkinson, Carter T ^a   Samuel, Michael D ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Climate change; Culex mosquito; Hawaiian forest birds; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; COOLING; CULTIVATED LAND; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HISTORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LARVA; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES REFUGE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VOLCANO;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 84857483317     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06431.x     Document Type: Article

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