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AUTHOR
Andreas Lindén
Additional file 7 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 7: Figure S6. Partial dependency plots for (a) I. ricinus and (b) I. persulcatus solely based on host data.
Substantial decline of Northern European peatland bird populations: Consequences of drainage
Northern European peatlands are important habitats for biological conservation because they support rich biodiversity and unique species compositions. However, historical management of peatland habitats has had negative consequences for biodiversity and their degradation remains a major conservation concern. Despite increasing awareness of the conservation value of peatlands, the statuses and ecological requirements of peat land species have remained largely understudied. Here, we first analysed temporal trends of Northern European peatland birds to document the status of their populations using bird data from five different countries. Second, we used Finnish monitoring data to assess habit…
Supporting information for The impact of wildlife and environmental factors on hantavirus infection in host and its translation into human risk
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Additional file 3 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 3: Figure S3. The range (lines) and mean (dots) of model performances over 50 model runs in each model algorithm estimating habitat suitabilities for I. persulcatus in different variable compositions: (a) environmental only, (b) host only, (c) environmental and host, and (d) environmental, host, and suitability for I. ricinus.
Additional file 4 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 4: Figure S4. The relative contributions of the explanatory variables in the data set of (a) host only, (b) environment only based on the mean ensemble model.
Additional file 8 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 8: Figure S7. Partial dependency plots for (a) I. ricinus and (b) I. persulcatus based on combined host and environmental data, and habitat suitability data for the other tick species.
Additional file 3 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 3: Figure S3. The range (lines) and mean (dots) of model performances over 50 model runs in each model algorithm estimating habitat suitabilities for I. persulcatus in different variable compositions: (a) environmental only, (b) host only, (c) environmental and host, and (d) environmental, host, and suitability for I. ricinus.
Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches
Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known consequence of climate warming contributing to regional community change, less is known about how species' positions shift within their climatic niches. Furthermore, whether the relative importance of different climatic variables prompting such shifts varies with changing climate remains unclear. Here we analysed four decades of data for 1,478 species of birds, mammals, butterflies, moths, plants and phytoplankton along a 1,200 km high latitudinal gradient. The relative importance of climatic drivers varied non-uniformly with progressing climate change. While species turnover among decades was limited, the …
Additional file 6 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 6: Figure S5. Partial dependency plots for (a) I. ricinus and (b) I. persulcatus solely based on environmental data.
Additional file 5 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 5: Table S1. The number of times each model contributed to the final ensemble in different data sets.
Additional file 2 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 2: Figure S2. The range (lines) and mean (dots) of model performances over 50 model runs in each model algorithm estimating habitat suitabilities for I. ricinus in different variable compositions: (a) environmental only, (b) host only, (c) environmental and host, and (d) environmental, host, and suitability for I. ricinus.
Additional file 7 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 7: Figure S6. Partial dependency plots for (a) I. ricinus and (b) I. persulcatus solely based on host data.
The impact of wildlife and environmental factors on hantavirus infection in the host and its translation into human risk
Identifying factors that drive infection dynamics in reservoir host populations is essential in understanding human risk from wildlife-originated zoonoses. We studied zoonotic Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) in the host, the bank vole ( Myodes glareolus ), populations in relation to the host population, rodent and predator community and environment-related factors and whether these processes are translated into human infection incidence. We used 5-year rodent trapping and bank vole PUUV serology data collected from 30 sites located in 24 municipalities in Finland. We found that PUUV seroprevalence in the host was negatively associated with the abundance of red foxes, but this process did no…
Additional file 1 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 1: Figure S1. (a) The sampling strategy for new collections in 2021 was created based on the following criteria. Subdivisions of landscape areas (Area1–Area4), CORINE land cover 2018, a 5-km buffer around existing I. persulcatus occurrences (grey circles), and a 500-m buffer around roads were used to delimit the four sampling areas (light grey lines). For each sampling area, a random sample of 25 collection locations was created depending on the relative shares of forest and meadow categories in each area. (b) The map showing the 2021 results indicates the locations where I. ricinus was found with B. burgdorferi (s.l.)-positive locations.
Additional file 4 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 4: Figure S4. The relative contributions of the explanatory variables in the data set of (a) host only, (b) environment only based on the mean ensemble model.
Additional file 5 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 5: Table S1. The number of times each model contributed to the final ensemble in different data sets.
Additional file 8 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 8: Figure S7. Partial dependency plots for (a) I. ricinus and (b) I. persulcatus based on combined host and environmental data, and habitat suitability data for the other tick species.
Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
AbstractBackgroundTicks are responsible for transmitting several notable pathogens worldwide. Finland lies in a zone where two human-biting tick species co-occur:IxodesricinusandIxodespersulcatus. Tick densities have increased in boreal regions worldwide during past decades, and tick-borne pathogens have been identified as one of the major threats to public health in the face of climate change.MethodsWe used species distribution modelling techniques to predict the distributions ofI.ricinusandI.persulcatus,using aggregated historical data from 2014 to 2020 and new tick occurrence data from 2021. By aiming to fill the gaps in tick occurrence data, we created a new sampling strategy across Fin…
Additional file 6 of Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland
Additional file 6: Figure S5. Partial dependency plots for (a) I. ricinus and (b) I. persulcatus solely based on environmental data.