Can landscape metrics help determine the Culicoides imicola distribution in Italy?

Geospatial Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 267-277

  Ippoliti, Carla ^a   Gilbert, Marius ^b,c   Vanhuysse, Sabine ^b   Goffredo, Maria ^a   Satta, Giuseppe ^d   Wolff, Eléonore ^b   Conte, Annamaria ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL ABRUZZO E DEL MOLISE G CAPORALE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

^d ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Culicoides imicola; Italy; Landscape metrics; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; ITALY; POPULATION DENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHEEP; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; ENVIRONMENT; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHEEP;

EID: 84896531992     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2013.72     Document Type: Article

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