TY - JOUR AU - Garcia-Martí, Irene AU - Zurita-Milla, Raúl AU - van Vliet, Arnold J. H. AU - Takken, Willem PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/14 TI - Modelling and mapping tick dynamics using volunteered observations JO - International Journal of Health Geographics SP - 41 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Tick populations and tick-borne infections have steadily increased since the mid-1990s posing an ever-increasing risk to public health. Yet, modelling tick dynamics remains challenging because of the lack of data and knowledge on this complex phenomenon. Here we present an approach to model and map tick dynamics using volunteered data. This approach is illustrated with 9 years of data collected by a group of trained volunteers who sampled active questing ticks (AQT) on a monthly basis and for 15 locations in the Netherlands. We aimed at finding the main environmental drivers of AQT at multiple time-scales, and to devise daily AQT maps at the national level for 2014. SN - 1476-072X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-017-0114-8 DO - 10.1186/s12942-017-0114-8 ID - Garcia-Martí2017 ER -