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

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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