Quantifying dilution and amplification in a community of hosts for tick-borne pathogens

Ecological Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 484-498

  Levi, Taal ^a   Keesing, Felicia ^b   Holt, Robert D ^c   Barfield, Michael ^c   Ostfeld, Richard S ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community ecology; Ecosystem services; Ixodes scapularis; Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ASSEMBLY RULE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DILUTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PREDATION RISK; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; TICK;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLARINA BREVICAUDA; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PROCYON; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SORICIDAE; TAMIAS STRIATUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; HOST RANGE; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCIURIDAE; SEASON; TICK INFESTATIONS; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; HOST SPECIFICITY; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84969756488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0122     Document Type: Article

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