Evaluation of the impacts of climate change on disease vectors through ecological niche modelling

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 419-430

  Carvalho, B M ^a,b,c   Rangel, E F ^b   Vale, M M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aedes; Anopheles; Culicoides; ensemble modelling; Ixodes; Lutzomyia; Phlebotomus; spatial distribution; Triatoma; vector borne diseases

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DISEASE VECTOR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; INSECT; NICHE; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TICK; TROPICAL REGION;

HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODIDA; TRIATOMA;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD VECTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; IXODES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRIATOMA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; IXODES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRIATOMA;

EID: 85006240201     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: 14752670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485316001097     Document Type: Review

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