Modeling culex tarsalis abundance on the northern colorado front range using a landscape-level approach

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-20

  Schurich, Jessica A ^a,b   Kumar, Sunil ^b   Eisen, Lars ^b   Moore, Chester G ^b  

^a Colorado Mosquito Control Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Culex tarsalis; Geographic Information System; Landscape; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84896295476     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/13-6373.1     Document Type: Article

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