Department of Animal Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50013-Zaragoza, Spain.
SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, IREC (CSIC, UCLM, JCCM), 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain.
Sci Data. 2016 Aug 1;3:160056. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2016.56.
Interactions between tick species, their realized range of hosts, the pathogens they carry and transmit, and the geographic distribution of species in the Western Palearctic were determined based on evidence published between 1970-2014. These relationships were linked to remotely sensed features of temperature and vegetation and used to extract the network of interactions among the organisms. The resulting datasets focused on niche overlap among ticks and hosts, species interactions, and the fraction of the environmental niche in which tick-borne pathogens may circulate as a result of interactions and overlapping environmental traits. The resulting datasets provide a valuable resource for researchers interested in tick-borne pathogens, as they conciliate the abiotic and biotic sides of their niche, allowing exploration of the importance of each host species acting as a vertebrate reservoir in the circulation of tick-transmitted pathogens in the environmental niche.
基于 1970 年至 2014 年期间发表的证据，确定了蜱种之间的相互作用、它们实际的宿主范围、携带和传播的病原体，以及西古北区物种的地理分布。这些关系与温度和植被的遥感特征相关联，并用于提取生物体之间相互作用的网络。由此产生的数据集侧重于蜱虫和宿主之间的生态位重叠、物种相互作用以及由于相互作用和重叠的环境特征，蜱传病原体在环境生态位中可能传播的部分。由此产生的数据集为关注蜱传病原体的研究人员提供了有价值的资源，因为它们协调了其生态位的生物和非生物方面，允许探索每个宿主物种作为脊椎动物库在环境生态位中传播蜱传病原体的重要性。
