Finding the appropriate variables to model the distribution of vector-borne parasites with different environmental preferences: Climate is not enough

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3245-3253

  Pérez Rodríguez, Antón ^a   Fernández González, Sofía ^a   De la Hera, Iván ^a,b   Pérez Tris, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avian haemosporidians; Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla; Environmental constrains; Haemoproteus; Host migration; Leucocytozoon; Partial least squares regression; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AVES; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; LEUCOCYTOZOON; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

LEUCOCYTOZOON; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AVIAN HAEMOSPORIDIANS; BLACKCAP SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINS; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOSPORIDA; HOST MIGRATION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AVIAN HAEMOSPORIDIANS; BLACKCAP SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINS; HAEMOPROTEUS; HOST MIGRATION; LEUCOCYTOZOON; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PLASMODIUM;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENVIRONMENT; HAEMOSPORIDA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITES; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 84885421718     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12226     Document Type: Article

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