Perspectives on modelling the distribution of ticks for large areas: So far so good?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Estrada Peña, Agustín ^a   Alexander, Neil ^b   Wint, G R William ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlative distribution modelling; MODIS Fourier transformation; Remote sensing; Ticks

Indexed keywords

BIOTYPE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; EXERCISE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PUBLICATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; TICK; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENTOMOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TICKS;

EID: 85007583493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1474-9     Document Type: Review

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