Do the ticks of birds at an important migratory hotspot reflect the seasonal dynamics of Ixodes ricinus at the migration initiation site? A case study in the danube delta

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sándor, Attila D ^a   Mǎrcuţan, Daniel I ^a   D'Amico, Gianluca ^a   Gherman, Cǎlin M ^a   Dumitrache, Mirabela O ^a   Mihalca, Andrei D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRD; BREEDING; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLIAGE FEEDER; FORAGING; GROUND FEEDER; HAEMAPHYSALIS PUNCTATA; IXODES ARBORICOLA; IXODES REDIKORZEVI; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; LARVAL INTENSITY; MALE; MIGRANT BIRD; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREVALENCE; REED BED FEEDER; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPRING; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; IXODES; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84897798378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089378     Document Type: Article

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