Climate change, biodiversity, ticks and tick-borne diseases: The butterfly effect

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 452-461

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Tick borne diseases; Ticks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973446618     PISSN: 22132244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2015.07.001     Document Type: Article

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