Species diversity and abundance of ticks in three habitats in southern Italy

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 251-255

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,b   Otranto, Domenico ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environment; Forest; Mediterranean climate; Season; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FEMALE; HABITAT; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HAEMAPHYSALIS INERMIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PARVA; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; HUMIDITY; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; ITALY; IXODES RICINUS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPRING; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TICK; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS; TICKS;

CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HAEMAPHYSALIS INERMIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS PARVA; HAEMAPHYSALIS SULCATA; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS;

EID: 84875264936     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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