Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 10942-10947

  Levi, Taal ^a   Kilpatrick, A Marm ^a   Mangel, Marc ^b,c   Wilmers, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Coyote range expansion; Ixodes; Mesopredator release; Trophic cascade; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COYOTE; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; FOX; HOST; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TICK;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COYOTES; DEER; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; FOXES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE; IXODES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; VULPES;

EID: 84863558988     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204536109     Document Type: Article

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