Predictors of malaria infection in a wild bird population: Landscape-level analyses reveal climatic and anthropogenic factors

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1091-1102

  Gonzalez Quevedo, Catalina ^a   Davies, Richard G ^a   Richardson, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Berthelot's pipit; Environmental predictors; Generalized linear models; Model selection

Indexed keywords

BIRD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PASSERINE; POULTRY; PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WILD POPULATION;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

ANTHUS BERTHELOTII; AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIRD DISEASE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HAEMOSPORIDA; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; POND; POULTRY; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAEMOSPORIDA; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; PONDS; POULTRY; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84906322825     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12214     Document Type: Article

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