Winter Tick Host Competency Data from Elk and Moose in the Southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem 2020-2023

Description

Three tabular datasets providing tick counts from various transects and reproduction sites around Jackson, Wyoming. One table with data from total number of winter ticks collected running a transect along either an elk or moose hide, another table with winter tick counts collected and counted in a 250 m drag transect, and then the last table is the count of larvae that come from one fed female tick.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P13RAIEZ
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.66f71078d34e98f05fb38049.xml

Tags

  • moose
  • greater-yellowstone-ecosystem
  • winter-tick
  • ecological-competition
  • apparent-competition
  • biota
  • usgs-66f71078d34e98f05fb38049
  • parasites
  • wyoming
  • elk
  • jackson
  • arachnids
  • parasite-sharing
  • host-competency

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