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Winter temperature affects the prevalence of ticks in an Arctic seabird.
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- Ticks and tick-borne diseases on southwestern Indian Ocean islands.Parasites & vectors · 2026Review
- Impact of climate change on the tick-host-pathogen complex: distribution patterns, disease incidence, and host infestation.Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria · 2025Review
- Large-Scale Sequencing ofGenes · 2022Review
- Models of spatial analysis for vector-borne diseases studies: A systematic review.Veterinary world · 2022Article
- Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) associated with birds in Europe: Review of literature data.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Long-term increases in pathogen seroprevalence in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) influenced by climate change.Global change biology · 2021Article
- Systematic Review of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens of Small Ruminants in Pakistan.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Characterizing the microbiome of ectoparasitic louse flies feeding on migratory raptors.PloS one · 2020Article
- Precipitation and ectoparasitism reduce reproductive success in an arctic-nesting top-predator.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Investigating the effects of age-related spatial structuring on the transmission of a tick-borne virus in a colonially breeding host.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Maximum Entropy-Based Ecological Niche Model and Bio-Climatic Determinants of Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Niche.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Where to Forage in the Absence of Sea Ice? Bathymetry As a Key Factor for an Arctic Seabird.PloS one · 2016Article
- Climate change, biodiversity, ticks and tick-borne diseases: The butterfly effect.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2015Article
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Abstract
The Arctic is rapidly warming and host-parasite relationships may be modified by such environmental changes. Here, I showed that the average winter temperature in Svalbard, Arctic Norway, explained almost 90% of the average prevalence of ticks in an Arctic seabird, the Brünnich's guillemot Uria lomvia. An increase of 1°C in the average winter temperature at the nesting colony site was associated with a 5% increase in the number of birds infected by these ectoparasites in the subsequent breeding season. Guillemots were generally infested by only a few ticks (≤5) and I found no direct effect of tick presence on their body condition and breeding success. However, the strong effect of average winter temperature described here clearly indicates that tick-seabird relationships in the Arctic may be strongly affected by ongoing climate warming.
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