%0 Journal Article
%T Perspectives on modelling the distribution of ticks for large areas: so far so good?
%A Agustšªn Estrada-Pe£¿a
%A G.R. William Wint
%A Neil Alexander
%J Archive of "Parasites & Vectors".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13071-016-1474-9
%X This paper aims to illustrate the steps needed to produce reliable correlative modelling for arthropod vectors, when process-driven models are unavailable. We use ticks as examples because of the (re)emerging interest in the pathogens they transmit. We argue that many scientific publications on the topic focus on: (i) the use of explanatory variables that do not adequately describe tick habitats; (ii) the automatic removal of variables causing internal (statistical) problems in the models without considering their ecological significance; and (iii) spatial pattern matching rather than niche mapping, therefore losing information that could be used in projections
%K Correlative distribution modelling
%K Ticks
%K Remote sensing
%K MODIS Fourier transformation
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4815247/