Consequences of landscape fragmentation on Lyme disease risk: A cellular automata approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Li, Sen ^a   Hartemink, Nienke ^a   Speybroeck, Niko ^a   Vanwambeke, Sophie O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TICK INFESTATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK; TICKS;

EID: 84862697947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039612     Document Type: Article

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