Geographical distribution, climatic variability and thermo-tolerance of Chagas disease vectors

Ecography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 851-860

  de la Vega, Gerardo J ^a   Medone, Paula ^b   Ceccarelli, Soledad ^b   Rabinovich, Jorge ^b   Schilman, Pablo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLÓGICOS Y DE VECTORES CEPAVE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; LIMITING FACTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITIC DISEASE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 84938751503     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01028     Document Type: Article

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