Modelling the abundances of two major culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) species in the niayes area of senegal

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Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Diarra, Maryam ^a,b   Fall, Moussa ^a   Lancelot, Renaud ^c,d   Diop, Aliou ^b   Fall, Assane G ^a   Dicko, Ahmadou ^a   Seck, Momar Talla ^a   Garros, Claire ^c,d   Allène, Xavier ^c,d   Rakotoarivony, Ignace ^c,d   Bakhoum, Mame Thierno ^a   Bouyer, Jérémy ^a,c,d   Guis, Hélène ^c,d  

^a ISRA LNERV   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GASTON BERGER   (Senegal)

^c UMR ASTRE   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES OXYSTOMA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; IMAGO; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENEGAL; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WIND; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CERATOPOGONIDAE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES IMICOLA; CULICOIDES OXYSTOMA; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE;

ANIMALS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENEGAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84938633330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131021     Document Type: Article

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