On the relation between soil moisture dynamics and the geographical distribution of Culicoides imicola

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 622-632

  Peters, Jan ^a   Conte, Annamaria ^b   Van doninck, Jasper ^a   Verhoest, Niko E C ^a   De Clercq, Eva ^c   Goffredo, Maria ^b   De Baets, Bernard ^a   Hendrickx, Guy ^c   Ducheyne, Els ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Istituto G Caporale   (Italy)

^c AVIA GIS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Breeding habitat; Culicoides; Epidemiology; Soil moisture; Soil texture; Species distribution model; Water retention

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ECOSYSTEMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; VIRUSES;

BLUETONGUE; BREEDING HABITATS; CULICOIDES; SOIL TEXTURES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING; WATER RETENTION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING SITE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MOISTURE CONTENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPSOIL; VIRUS; WATER RETENTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CULICOIDES IMICOLA;

EID: 84897565143     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1383     Document Type: Article

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