Impacts of deer management practices on the spatial dynamics of the tick Ixodes ricinus: A scenario analysis

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 276, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-13

  Li, Sen ^a   Vanwambeke, Sophie O ^a   Licoppe, Alain M ^b   Speybroeck, Niko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Operational Directorate General for Agriculture   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Deer management; Spatial heterogeneity; Tick control; Tick population ecology

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DEER MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDICTIVE MODELLING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPERT SYSTEM; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TICK; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WOODLAND;

EID: 84892888297     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.12.023     Document Type: Article

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