Deconstructing Ixodes ricinus: A partial matrix model allowing mapping of tick development, mortality and activity rates

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-49

  Estrada Pena A ^a   Estrada Sanchez D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate trends; Elasticity; Impact; Ixodes ricinus; Matrix model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LATITUDE; LIFE CYCLE; MORTALITY; PHENOLOGY; SURVIVORSHIP; TICK;

IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE TRENDS; ELASTICITY; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMPACT; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; MATRIX MODEL; MIDDLE EAST; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE TRENDS; ELASTICITY; IMPACT; IXODES RICINUS; MATRIX MODEL;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LARVA; MIDDLE EAST; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NYMPH; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84893707720     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12009     Document Type: Article

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