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Assessment of Land Cover Dynamics and Drivers of Urban Expansion Using Geospatial and Logistic Regression Approach in Wa Municipality, Ghana. LAND 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/land10111251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The current trends of land use dynamics have revealed a significant transformation of settlement spaces. In the Wa Municipality of Ghana, the changes in land use and land cover are inspired by a plethora of driving forces. In this study, we assessed the geo-physical drivers of settlement expansion under land use dynamics in the Wa Municipality of Ghana. The study employed geospatial and remote sensing tools to map and analyse the spatio-temporal dynamics of the landscape, using Landsat satellite imageries: thematic mapper (TM), enhanced thematic mapper (ETM) and operational land imager (OLI) from 1990 to 2020. The study employed a binomial logistic regression model to statistically assess the geo-physical drivers of settlement expansion. Random forest (RF)–supervised classification based on spatio-temporal analyses generated relatively higher classification accuracies, with overall accuracy ranging from 89.33% to 93.3%. Urban expansion for the last three decades was prominent, as the period from 1990 to 2001 gained 11.44 km2 landmass of settlement, while there was 11.30 km2 gained from 2001 to 2010, and 29.44 km2 gained from 2010 to 2020. Out of the independent variables assessed, the distance to existing settlements, distance to river, and distance to primary, tertiary and unclassified roads were responsible for urban expansion.
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Souliotis I, Voulvoulis N. Incorporating Ecosystem Services in the Assessment of Water Framework Directive Programmes of Measures. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2021; 68:38-52. [PMID: 33978824 PMCID: PMC8172509 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01478-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The EU Water Framework Directive requires the development of management responses aimed towards improving water quality as a result of improving ecosystem health (system state). Ecosystems have potential to supply a range of services that are of fundamental importance to human well-being, health, livelihoods and survival, and their capacity to supply these services depends on the ecosystem condition (its structure and processes). According to the WFD, Programmes of Measures should be developed to improve overall water status by reducing anthropogenic catchment pressures to levels compatible with the achievement of the ecological objectives of the directive, and when designed and implemented properly should improve the ecological condition of aquatic ecosystems that the delivery of ecosystem services depends on. Monitoring and evaluation of implemented measures are crucial for assessing their effectiveness and creating the agenda for consecutive planning cycles. Considering the challenges of achieving water status improvements, and the difficulties of communicating these to the wider public, we develop a framework for the evaluation of measures cost-effectiveness that considers ecosystem services as the benefits from the reduction of pressures on water bodies. We demonstrate its application through a case study and discuss its potential to facilitate the economic analysis required by the directive, and that most European water authorities had problems with. Findings demonstrate the potential of the methodology to effectively incorporate ecosystem services in the assessment of costs and benefits of proposed actions, as well as its potential to engage stakeholders.
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- Ioannis Souliotis
- Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Kesgin Atak B, Ersoy Tonyaloğlu E. Monitoring the spatiotemporal changes in regional ecosystem health: a case study in Izmir, Turkey. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2020; 192:385. [PMID: 32435904 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-08357-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The maintenance of human well-being and development is dependent on ecosystem goods and services. However, natural ecosystems and biodiversity have been disturbed by human activities. Therefore, assessment of ecosystem health has become one of the main topics in landscape management. The aim of this study is to reveal the effects of land use/land cover (LULC) change on regional ecosystem health (REH) in Izmir, Turkey. The study used the vigour, organization and resilience model together with potential ecosystem services to understand the relationships between LULC structure, ecosystems and human activities using the most populous and urbanized parts of Izmir metropolitan city. For this purpose, the CORINE land cover maps and Landsat satellite images for 1990 and 2018 were used. Our results showed that there was an increase in the mean regional ecosystem health value (from 48.06 to 49.32) during 1990-2018, but it changed in an inconsistent way in the different parts of the study area. The urban sprawl type and the presence of vegetation were important factors affecting the overall REH value. The spatiotemporal LULC changes were effective on all the ecosystem health indicators. Among all the ecosystem health indicators, ecosystem vigour and resilience were the most important factors positively affected the REH level in highly urbanized districts. Overall, our study showed that whilst the gains in vegetation between urban and rural areas enhanced the ecosystem vigour and resilience during 1990-2018, they have also improved the regional health of districts located along the coastal parts of the study area.
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- Birsen Kesgin Atak
- Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey.
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey
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Analysing the Synergies and Trade-Offs between Ecosystem Services to Reorient Land Use Planning in Metropolitan Bilbao (Northern Spain). SUSTAINABILITY 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/su10124376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In the last decades, some European cities have undergone important changes in search of a more sustainable development. This is the case for the city of Bilbao (Bizkaia, Basque Country), where a Greenbelt has been maintained surrounding the urban areas allowing the periurban areas to deliver ecosystem services (ES) to society. However, the role of the different ecosystems in the provision of ES is not the same, which can lead to conflicts among them. The aim of this study is to analyze the synergies and trade-offs among the eight most important ES in the Bilbao Metropolitan Greenbelt (BMG) to orient their management strategies towards more multifunctional landscapes. We mapped the ES and overlapped them looking for the most relevant areas for the provision of multiple ES and areas that are mostly lacking ES provision. We identify also existing ES trade-offs and synergies between ES using correlations so that managers can prioritize preservation efforts of land use types in the rest of the area. The results show that provisioning ES had trade-offs with regulating and cultural ES and the latter showed synergies between them. The former are mainly delivered by semi-natural ecosystems, while regulating and cultural ES are delivered mainly by natural ecosystems. Moreover, the most relevant areas for the provision of multiple ES were proposed as potential components of a Green Infrastructure (GI). Their identification and ES bundles could help decision-makers to orient their management strategies towards sustainability in metropolitan areas.
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Ferreira LMR, Esteves LS, de Souza EP, dos Santos CAC. Impact of the Urbanisation Process in the Availability of Ecosystem Services in a Tropical Ecotone Area. Ecosystems 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-018-0270-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Nesshöver C, Assmuth T, Irvine KN, Rusch GM, Waylen KA, Delbaere B, Haase D, Jones-Walters L, Keune H, Kovacs E, Krauze K, Külvik M, Rey F, van Dijk J, Vistad OI, Wilkinson ME, Wittmer H. The science, policy and practice of nature-based solutions: An interdisciplinary perspective. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 579:1215-1227. [PMID: 27919556 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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In this paper, we reflect on the implications for science, policy and practice of the recently introduced concept of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), with a focus on the European context. First, we analyse NBS in relation to similar concepts, and reflect on its relationship to sustainability as an overarching framework. From this, we derive a set of questions to be addressed and propose a general framework for how these might be addressed in NBS projects by funders, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. We conclude that: To realise their full potential, NBS must be developed by including the experience of all relevant stakeholders such that 'solutions' contribute to achieving all dimensions of sustainability. As NBS are developed, we must also moderate the expectations placed on them since the precedent provided by other initiatives whose aim was to manage nature sustainably demonstrates that we should not expect NBS to be cheap and easy, at least not in the short-term.
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- Carsten Nesshöver
- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology & UFZ Science-Policy Expert Group, Permoser Str. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; iDiv - German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) Environmental Policy Centre, PO Box 140, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland.
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- Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, United Kingdom.
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Terrestrial Ecology Department, PO Box 5685, Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, United Kingdom.
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- ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation, PO Box 90154, 5000 LG Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoser Str. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Geography, Lab for Landscape Ecology, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen UR, Wageningen Campus, PO Box 47, 6700 Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- INBO & Belgian Biodiversity Platform & University of Antwerp, Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
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- Szent István University, Institute of Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, Páter K. u. 1., H-2100 Gödöllő, Hungary; Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG), Rómer Flóris u. 38, Budapest H-1024, Hungary.
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- European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Tylna 3, 90-364 Lodz, Poland.
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 1, Tartu 51014, Estonia.
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR EMGR, 2 rue de la Papeterie, BP 76, 38402 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France.
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Terrestrial Ecology Department, PO Box 5685, Sluppen, 7485 Trondheim, Norway.
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Human Dimension Department, Fakkelgarden, 2624 Lillehammer, Norway.
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- Environmental and Biochemical Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, United Kingdom.
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- UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Politics & UFZ Science-Policy Expert Group, Permoser Str. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
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Schaubroeck T, Deckmyn G, Giot O, Campioli M, Vanpoucke C, Verheyen K, Rugani B, Achten W, Verbeeck H, Dewulf J, Muys B. Environmental impact assessment and monetary ecosystem service valuation of an ecosystem under different future environmental change and management scenarios; a case study of a Scots pine forest. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2016; 173:79-94. [PMID: 26974241 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Revised: 12/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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For a sustainable future, we must sustainably manage not only the human/industrial system but also ecosystems. To achieve the latter goal, we need to predict the responses of ecosystems and their provided services to management practices under changing environmental conditions via ecosystem models and use tools to compare the estimated provided services between the different scenarios. However, scientific articles have covered a limited amount of estimated ecosystem services and have used tools to aggregate services that contain a significant amount of subjective aspects and that represent the final result in a non-tangible unit such as 'points'. To resolve these matters, this study quantifies the environmental impact (on human health, natural systems and natural resources) in physical units and uses an ecosystem service valuation based on monetary values (including ecosystem disservices with associated negative monetary values). More specifically, the paper also focuses on the assessment of ecosystem services related to pollutant removal/generation flows, accounting for the inflow of eutrophying nitrogen (N) when assessing the effect of N leached to groundwater. Regarding water use/provisioning, evapotranspiration is alternatively considered a disservice because it implies a loss of (potential) groundwater. These approaches and improvements, relevant to all ecosystems, are demonstrated using a Scots pine stand from 2010 to 2089 for a combination of three environmental change and three management scenarios. The environmental change scenarios considered interannual climate variability trends and included alterations in temperature, precipitation, nitrogen deposition, wind speed, Particulate matter (PM) concentration and CO2 concentration. The addressed flows/ecosystem services, including disservices, are as follows: particulate matter removal, freshwater loss, CO2 sequestration, wood production, NOx emissions, NH3 uptake and nitrogen pollution/removal. The monetary ecosystem service valuation yields a total average estimate of 361-1242 euro ha(-1) yr(-1). PM2.5 (<2.5 μm) removal is the key service, with a projected value of 622-1172 euro ha(-1) yr(-1). Concerning environmental impact assessment, with net CO2 uptake being the most relevant contributing flow, a loss prevention of 0.014-0.029 healthy life years ha(-1) yr(-1) is calculated for the respective flows. Both assessment methods favor the use of the least intensive management scenario due to its resulting higher CO2 sequestration and PM removal, which are the most important services of the considered ones.
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- Thomas Schaubroeck
- Research Group EnVOC, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- Centre of Excellence PLECO (Plant and Vegetation Ecology), Department of Biology, University of Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Centre of Excellence PLECO (Plant and Vegetation Ecology), Department of Biology, University of Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; Royal Meteorological Institute (KMI), Ringlaan 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
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- Centre of Excellence PLECO (Plant and Vegetation Ecology), Department of Biology, University of Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Belgian Interregional Environment Agency, Kunstlaan 10-11, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
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- Forest and Nature Laboratory, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, B-9090 Gontrode, Belgium
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- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Department of Environmental Research & Innovation (ERIN), Rue du Brill 41, L-4422, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institute for Environmental Management and Land Use Planning (IGEAT), Gestion de l'Environnement, Société et Territoire (GESTe), Avenue Franklin D, Roosevelt 50 CP 130/02, Brussels B-1050, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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- Research Group EnVOC, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Division Forest, Nature and Landscape, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E-2411, BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Maseyk FJ, Mackay AD, Possingham HP, Dominati EJ, Buckley YM. Managing Natural Capital Stocks for the Provision of Ecosystem Services. Conserv Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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- Fleur J.F. Maseyk
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
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- Land and Environment Group AgResearch Grasslands Palmerston North 4442 New Zealand
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
- Department of Mathematics and Physics The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- Land and Environment Group AgResearch Grasslands Palmerston North 4442 New Zealand
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
- School of Natural Sciences, Zoology, Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland
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Birkhofer K, Diehl E, Andersson J, Ekroos J, Früh-Müller A, Machnikowski F, Mader VL, Nilsson L, Sasaki K, Rundlöf M, Wolters V, Smith HG. Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research. Front Ecol Evol 2015. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Miguel E, Boulinier T, de Garine-Wichatitsky M, Caron A, Fritz H, Grosbois V. Characterising African tick communities at a wild-domestic interface using repeated sampling protocols and models. Acta Trop 2014; 138:5-14. [PMID: 24905293 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Revised: 05/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The sharing of habitat by wild and domestic animals may result in pathogen transmission, notably via ectoparasite vectors such as ticks. Interfaces between protected and communal lands constitute sharp transitions between areas occupied by host communities that are extremely contrasted in terms of composition, diversity and density. Empirical characterizations of tick communities and of their vertebrate hosts are strongly relevant for understanding the mechanisms leading to disease transmission between wild and domestic animals. In the present study we aimed at depicting the pattern of spatial variation in the density of immature ticks at such an interface located in Zimbabwe. At the end of the 2011 rainy season, we applied a hierarchical repeated protocol to collect ticks. We used the drag-sampling method in the vegetation surrounding water pans used by ungulates in 3 distinct landscape compartments (i.e. national park, mixed compartment and communal lands) characterized by a differential use by wild and domestic hosts. We combined generalized linear mixed models with site occupancy models to (1) assess tick aggregation levels at different spatial scales, (2) identify and disentangle factors which influence the density and probability of tick detection, and (3) compare robust estimations of tick densities among the landscape compartments. Ticks belonging to the Amblyomma and Riphicephalus genuses were found to be the most abundant. At small scale, ticks were more often detected in the afternoon and were more abundant close to water pans for Amblyomma and Riphicephalus genuses. Riphicephalus spp. density was also higher in grassland and bushland vegetation types as compared to woodland vegetation type. At large scale, for the three detected genuses, density was much higher near water pans located in the communal lands as compared to the national park and mixed compartment. Given that host community's diversity is much lower in the communal areas than in the two other landscape compartments, these results are compatible with a dilution effect but not sufficient to demonstrate this effect without additional studies. Up to date, it is the first utilization of these rigorous sampling and statistical modelling methodologies to estimate tick density in African ecosystem simultaneously at large and small scales.
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- Eve Miguel
- Cirad-ES,AGIRs, (Animal et Gestion Intégrée des Risques/Animal and Integrated Risk Management), Montpellier, France; CNRS-Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - UMR 5175, Montpellier, France; Cirad-ES, AGIRs-RP-PCP, Harare P.O. Box 1378, Zimbabwe.
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- CNRS-Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - UMR 5175, Montpellier, France
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- Cirad-ES,AGIRs, (Animal et Gestion Intégrée des Risques/Animal and Integrated Risk Management), Montpellier, France; Cirad-ES, AGIRs-RP-PCP, Harare P.O. Box 1378, Zimbabwe
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- Cirad-ES,AGIRs, (Animal et Gestion Intégrée des Risques/Animal and Integrated Risk Management), Montpellier, France; Cirad-ES, AGIRs-RP-PCP, Harare P.O. Box 1378, Zimbabwe; Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- CNRS-Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR 5558, UCB Lyon Villeurbanne, France
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- Cirad-ES,AGIRs, (Animal et Gestion Intégrée des Risques/Animal and Integrated Risk Management), Montpellier, France
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