Abiotic and habitat drivers of tick vector abundance, diversity, phenology and human encounter risk in southern California

Andrew J. MacDonald

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0201665

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Abiotic and habitat drivers of tick vector abundance, diversity, phenology and human encounter risk in southern California

Andrew J. MacDonald

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: andy.j.macdon@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0172-7749

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Abiotic and habitat drivers of tick vector abundance, diversity, phenology and human encounter risk in southern California

Andrew J. MacDonald

Published: July 31, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201665

About the Authors

Andrew J. MacDonald

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: andy.j.macdon@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0172-7749

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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