Does high biodiversity reduce the risk of Lyme disease invasion?

Author:

Bouchard, C, Beauchamp, G, Leighton, PA, Lindsay, LR, Bélanger, D, and Ogden, NH

Publication type:

Journal Article

Publication date:

2013-07

Journal/Series title:

Parasit Vectors

Volume:

URL:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23816142

Abstract:

Indices of trapped rodent host diversity, and of biodiversity of the wider community, were investigated as variables explaining the numbers of I. scapularis collected and B. burgdorferi infection in these ticks. A wide range of alternative environmental explanatory variables were also considered.