Evaluation of NEON Data to Model Spatio-Temporal Tick Dynamics in Florida.

ABSTRACT: In 2013, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) started collecting 30-year multi-faceted ecological data at various spatial and temporal scales across the US including ticks. Understanding the abundance and dynamics of disease vectors under changing environmental conditions in the long-term is important to societies, but sustained long-term collection efforts are sparse. Using hard-bodied tick data collected by NEON, the vegetation and atmospheric data and a statistical state-space model, which included a detection probability component, this study estimated the abundance of tick nymphs and adult ticks across a Florida NEON location. It took into account the spatial and temporal variation, and factors affecting detection. Its purpose was to test the applicability of data collec

SUBMITTER: Klarenberg G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6836180 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature