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Tick ecology data and risk maps, 2007-2010 - RELU Assessing and communicating animal disease risks for countryside users
This dataset consists of tick sampling and microclimate data from Exmoor, Richmond and New Forest study sites; as well as ARCGIS risk maps that model tick abundance driven by climate surfaces and host abundance. Tick sampling data (91 files, each representing a day of sampling) indicate tick abundance (distinguishing larvae, nymphs, adult males and adult females), vegetation height, soil moisture, temperature and relative humidity. Static risk map files indicate modeled tick abundance: 251 landcover files for the three sites, as well as 36 ArcView map files. The study is part of the NERC Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme. Many people take pleasure from activities in forests and wild lands in the UK and others are being encouraged to participate. Unfortunately, there are risks and one of the most insidious is the possibility (albeit tiny) of acquiring a disease from wild animals; for example, ticks can be vectors of the bacterial infection leading to Lyme Disease. Both diagnosis and treatment can be problematic so prevention of acquiring such disease is highly desirable. Surprisingly little is known about how best to warn countryside users about the potential for disease without scaring them away or spoiling their enjoyment. Answering such questions was the goal of this project, and required the integration of a diverse set of scientific skills, and an understanding of the views of those who manage countryside, those who have contracted zoonotic diseases and those who access the land. This project combined knowledge from three strands of work, namely risk assessment, risk perception and communication, and scenario analysis. The study sites were selected to provide a range of environmental conditions and countryside use. Peri-urban parkland, accessible lowland forest and heath and remote upland forest were chosen as represented by Richmond Park on the fringe of Greater London, the New Forest in Southern England, and Exmoor in South West England. The following additional data from this same research project are available at the UK Data Archive under study number 6892 (see online resources): Lyme disease risk perception data resulting from tick imagery vignette experiments, Lyme disease patient interviews and surveys, residents and countryside staff focus groups, forest manager interviews, and multiple scoring procedures of animal social representation; as well as Lyme and tick risk communication data resulting from interviews with organisations and content analysis of risk warning information leaflets, Further documentation for this study may be found through the RELU Knowledge Portal and the project's ESRC funding award web page (see online resources).
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- Date (Publication)
- 2013-07-25
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1374764152990
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ac9175da-921c-4a46-a6bb-b31d73eab8a6
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Forest Research Moseley, D.
Author Forest Research. Centre for Human and Ecological Sciences
Quine, C.
Principal investigator University of Oxford Randolph, S.
Owner University of Surrey Uzell, D.
Owner Brunel University
Barnett, J.
Owner University of Surrey Marcu, A.
Author Forest Research Marzano, M.
Author Forest Research O'Brien, L.
Author Forest Research Moseley, D.
Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Human Health and Safety
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- Other constraints
- unknown
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- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 50 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Health
- Begin date
- 2007-09-01
- End date
- 2010-11-30
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Name Version Excel
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/ac9175da-921c-4a46-a6bb-b31d73eab8a6 Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ac9175da-921c-4a46-a6bb-b31d73eab8a6.zip Supporting information
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Research funded by Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Award Number: RES-229-25-0007 Tick sampling data (91 files, each representing a day of sampling) indicate tick abundance (distinguishing larvae, nymphs, adult males and adult females), vegetation height, soil moisture, temperature and relative humidity. Static risk map files indicate modeled tick abundance: 251 landcover files for the three sites, as well as 36 ArcView map files.
Metadata
- File identifier
- ac9175da-921c-4a46-a6bb-b31d73eab8a6 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T10:44:29
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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