Cheilospirura hamulosa in the Rock Partridge (Alectoris graeca saxatilis): Epidemiological Patterns and Prediction of Parasite Distribution in France
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Field Sampling and Study Area
2.2. Parasitological Analysis
2.3. Epidemiological Descriptors
2.4. Environmental Variables
2.5. Modelling Approach
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Description |
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BIO1 | Annual Mean Temperature |
BIO4 | Temperature Seasonality (standard deviation × 100) |
BIO8 | Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter |
BIO10 | Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter |
BIO11 | Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter |
BIO12 | Annual Precipitation |
BIO15 | Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation) |
BIO17 | Precipitation of Driest Quarter |
BIO18 | Precipitation of Warmest Quarter |
BIO19 | Precipitation of Coldest Quarter |
DEM | Digital elevation model (DEM) describing the altitude for each pixel |
Latitude | Raster describing the latitude in UTM coordinates of each pixel |
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Fanelli, A.; Tizzani, P.; Ferroglio, E.; Belleau, E. Cheilospirura hamulosa in the Rock Partridge (Alectoris graeca saxatilis): Epidemiological Patterns and Prediction of Parasite Distribution in France. Diversity 2020, 12, 484. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120484
Fanelli A, Tizzani P, Ferroglio E, Belleau E. Cheilospirura hamulosa in the Rock Partridge (Alectoris graeca saxatilis): Epidemiological Patterns and Prediction of Parasite Distribution in France. Diversity. 2020; 12(12):484. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120484
Chicago/Turabian StyleFanelli, Angela, Paolo Tizzani, Ezio Ferroglio, and Eric Belleau. 2020. "Cheilospirura hamulosa in the Rock Partridge (Alectoris graeca saxatilis): Epidemiological Patterns and Prediction of Parasite Distribution in France" Diversity 12, no. 12: 484. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120484