Principal climatic and edaphic determinants of Culicoides biting midge abundance during the 2007-2008 bluetongue epidemic in the Netherlands, based on OVI light trap data

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-156

  Scolamacchia, F ^a,b   Van Den Broek, J ^a   Meiswinkel, R ^b,c   Heesterbeek, J A P ^a   Elbers, A R W ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bluetongue; Climate; Count data; Culicoides surveillance; Hurdle regression; Soil; The Netherlands; Vector

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENTOMOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; FLY; HABITAT SELECTION; LIVESTOCK; PALEARCTIC REGION; PATHOGEN; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); VIRUS; WIND VELOCITY;

NETHERLANDS;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS; BLUETONGUE VIRUS 8; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA;

SOIL;

ANIMAL; BLUETONGUE; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SHEEP; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CLIMATE; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SHEEP; SOIL;

EID: 84899812252     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12028     Document Type: Article

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