Tick-borne disease risk in a forest food web

Changes to the community ecology of hosts for zoonotic pathogens, particularly rodents, are likely to influence the emergence and prevalence of zoonotic diseases worldwide. However, the complex interactions between abiotic factors, pathogens, vectors, hosts, and both food resources and predators of...

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Published in:	Ecology (Durham) Vol. 99; no. 7; pp. 1562 - 1573
Main Authors:	Ostfeld, Richard S., Levi, Taal, Keesing, Felicia, Oggenfuss, Kelly, Canham, Charles D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States John Wiley and Sons, Inc 01.07.2018 Ecological Society of America
Subjects:	Abiotic factors Abundance Anaplasma phagocytophilum Animals Arachnids Babesia microti Bacteria blacklegged tick Borrelia burgdorferi bottom‐up control Canis latrans carnivores Climate change climatic factors Communities Community ecology Community structure deer Density environmental indicators Epidemiology Food Chain Food chains Food resources Food webs Forests fruits Health risks host seeking hosts Infections Ixodes Ixodes scapularis Landscape epidemiology landscapes Lyme disease Mice New York nymphs Odocoileus virginianus Pathogens predator Predators Public health Risk Rodents spring Tick-Borne Diseases Ticks tick‐borne disease top‐down control Variation Vector-borne diseases Vectors weather white‐footed mouse winter Zoonoses New York blacklegged tick Lyme disease tick-borne disease predator top-down control zoonoses white-footed mouse bottom-up control
ISSN:	0012-9658, 1939-9170
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