Environmental drivers of Ixodes ricinus abundance in forest fragments of rural European landscapes

Ehrmann, Steffen; Liira, Jaan; Gärtner, Stefanie; Hansen, Karin; Brunet, Jörg; A. O. Cousins, Sara; Deconchat, Marc; Decocq, Guillaume; De Frenne, Pieter; De Smedt, Pallieter; Diekmann, Martin; Gallet‐Moron, Emilie; Kolb, Annette; Lenoir, Jonathan; Lindgren, Jessica; Naaf, Tobias; Paal, Taavi; Valdés, Alicia; Verheyen, Kris; Wulf, Monika; Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael

doi:10.1186/s12898-017-0141-0

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Environmental drivers of Ixodes ricinus abundance in forest fragments of rural European landscapes

Published in BMC Ecology • Sep 6, 2017

Authors:

Steffen Ehrmann

Jaan Liira

Stefanie Gärtner

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The castor bean tick (Ixodes ricinus) transmits infectious diseases such as Lyme borreliosis, which constitutes an important ecosystem disservice. Despite many local studies, a comprehensive understanding of the key drivers of tick abundance at the continental scale is still lacking. We ...

Subject

Ixodes ricinus

Abundance (ecology)

Ecology

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