The phenology of ticks and the effects of long-term prescribed burning on tick population dynamics in Southwestern Georgia and Northwestern Florida

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Gleim, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Conner, L Mike ^b   Berghaus, Roy D ^a   Levin, Michael L ^c   Zemtsova, Galina E ^c   Yabsley, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; HOST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECT CONTROL; IXODES; IXODES BRUNNEUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; DERMACENTOR; FIRE; FLORIDA; GEORGIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TICK INFESTATIONS;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA MACULATUM; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; IXODES BRUNNEUS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; DERMACENTOR; FIRES; FLORIDA; GEORGIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODES; IXODIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84910655635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112174     Document Type: Article

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