Diversity and seasonal patterns of ticks parasitizing wild birds in western Portugal

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-339

  Norte, A C ^a,b   de Carvalho, I Lopes ^b   Ramos, J A ^a   Goncalves M ^a   Gern, L ^c   Nuncio M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birds; Foraging niche; Ixodes frontalis; Ixodes ricinus; Portugal; Tick parasitism

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NEW RECORD; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITE INTENSITY; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITISM; PASSERINE; RECREATIONAL FACILITY; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBURBAN AREA; TICK; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; GEOGRAPHY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTUGAL; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TICK; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTUGAL; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

PORTUGAL;

AVES; CERVIDAE; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES; IXODES ACUMINATUS; IXODES ARBORICOLA; IXODES FRONTALIS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SUS SCROFA; SYLVIA MELANOCEPHALA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84866490117     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9583-4     Document Type: Article

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