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Predicting the abundance of African horse sickness vectors in South Africa using GIS and artificial neural networks
Submitted: 13 August 2010 | Published: 04 July 2011
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Sanet Eksteen, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, South AfricaGregory D. Breetzke, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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