Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors
Species composition and densities of wild ungulate communities in Europe have changed over the last decades. As ungulates play an important role in the life-cycle of the tick species Ixodes ricinus, these changes could affect both the life-cycle of I. ricinus and the transmission of tick-borne patho...
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ftslunivuppsala:oai:pub.epsilon.slu.se:34937 2024-09-30T14:22:04+00:00 Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors Fabri, Nannet Hofmeester, Tim Ecke, Frauke Cromsigt, Joris 2024 application/pdf https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34937/ https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34937/1/fabri-n-d-et-al-20240830.pdf en eng eng https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34937/1/fabri-n-d-et-al-20240830.pdf Fabri, Nannet and Hofmeester, Tim and Ecke, Frauke and Cromsigt, Joris (2024). Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors. Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases. 6 , 100206 [Research article] Public Health Global Health Social Medicine and Epidemiology Ecology Research article NonPeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2024 ftslunivuppsala 2024-09-03T23:43:49Z Species composition and densities of wild ungulate communities in Europe have changed over the last decades. As ungulates play an important role in the life-cycle of the tick species Ixodes ricinus, these changes could affect both the life-cycle of I. ricinus and the transmission of tick-borne pathogens like Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Due to morphological and behavioural differences among the ungulate species, these species might have different effects on the densities of questing I. ricinus, either directly through a bloodmeal or indirectly via the impact of ungulates on rodent numbers via the vegetation. In this study, we aimed to investigate these direct and indirect effects of five different ungulate species, fallow deer (Dama dama), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), moose (Alces alces), and wild boar (Sus scrofa), on the presence and abundance of I. ricinus ticks. In the summer of 2019, on 20 1 × 1 km transects in south-central Sweden that differed in ungulate community composition, we collected data on tick presence and abundance (by dragging a cloth), ungulate community composition (using camera traps), vegetation height (using the drop-disc method), temperature above field layer and rodent abundance (by snap-trapping). Using generalized linear mixed models we did not find any associations between vegetation height and tick presence/abundance or ungulate visitation frequencies, or between ungulate visitation frequencies and the presence/abundance of questing I. ricinus. The power of our analyses was, however, low due to very low tick and rodent numbers. We did find a negative association between adult ticks and air temperature, where we were more likely to find adult ticks if temperature in the field layer was lower. We conclude that more elaborate long-term studies are needed to elucidate the investigated associations. Such future studies should differentiate among the potential impacts of different ungulate species instead of treating all ungulate ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU): Epsilon Open Archive |
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Species composition and densities of wild ungulate communities in Europe have changed over the last decades. As ungulates play an important role in the life-cycle of the tick species Ixodes ricinus, these changes could affect both the life-cycle of I. ricinus and the transmission of tick-borne pathogens like Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Due to morphological and behavioural differences among the ungulate species, these species might have different effects on the densities of questing I. ricinus, either directly through a bloodmeal or indirectly via the impact of ungulates on rodent numbers via the vegetation. In this study, we aimed to investigate these direct and indirect effects of five different ungulate species, fallow deer (Dama dama), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), moose (Alces alces), and wild boar (Sus scrofa), on the presence and abundance of I. ricinus ticks. In the summer of 2019, on 20 1 × 1 km transects in south-central Sweden that differed in ungulate community composition, we collected data on tick presence and abundance (by dragging a cloth), ungulate community composition (using camera traps), vegetation height (using the drop-disc method), temperature above field layer and rodent abundance (by snap-trapping). Using generalized linear mixed models we did not find any associations between vegetation height and tick presence/abundance or ungulate visitation frequencies, or between ungulate visitation frequencies and the presence/abundance of questing I. ricinus. The power of our analyses was, however, low due to very low tick and rodent numbers. We did find a negative association between adult ticks and air temperature, where we were more likely to find adult ticks if temperature in the field layer was lower. We conclude that more elaborate long-term studies are needed to elucidate the investigated associations. Such future studies should differentiate among the potential impacts of different ungulate species instead of treating all ungulate ... |
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Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors |
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Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors |
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Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors |
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Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors |
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Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors |
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ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors |
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https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/34937/1/fabri-n-d-et-al-20240830.pdf Fabri, Nannet and Hofmeester, Tim and Ecke, Frauke and Cromsigt, Joris (2024). Ixodes ricinus tick presence is associated with abiotic but not biotic factors. Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases. 6 , 100206 [Research article] |
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