Balancing biodiversity with agriculture: Land sharing mitigates avian malaria prevalence

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-131

  Mendenhall, Chase D ^a   Archer, Holly M ^b,c   Brenes, Federico Oviedo ^d   Sekercioglu, Cagan H ^e   Sehgal, Ravinder N M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Organization for Tropical Studies   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agronomy; Conservation biology; Countryside biogeography; Las Cruces Biological Station; Orange billed Nightingale Thrush; Parasitology; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 84876147889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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