Blar i USN Open Archive på forfatter "De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas"
-
Altitudinal distribution and host-parasite relations of ticks in Norway
De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas (Doctoral dissertations at the University of South-Eastern Norway;87, Doctoral thesis, 2021-03-05)With a warming climate and changes in land use during the last decades, ticks have been observed to occur at increasingly higher latitudes and altitudes in the northern hemisphere. With the range expansion of ticks comes ... -
Do bank voles (Myodes glareolus) trapped in live and lethal traps show differences in tick burden?
De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas; Korslund, Lars; Steifetten, Øyvind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In studies assessing tick abundance, the use of live traps to capture and euthanize rodent hosts is a commonly used method to determine their burden. However, captive animals can experience debilitating or fatal capture ... -
High-elevational occurrence of two tick species, Ixodes ricinus and I. trianguliceps, at their northern distribution range
De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas; Korslund, Lars; Steifetten, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: During the last decades a northward and upward range shift has been observed among many organisms across different taxa. In the northern hemisphere, ticks have been observed to have increased their latitudinal ... -
Host in reserve: The role of common shrews (Sorex araneus) as a supplementary source of tick hosts in small mammal communities influenced by rodent population cycles
De Pelsmaeker, Nicolas; Korslund, Lars; Steifetten, Øyvind (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Rodents often act as important hosts for ticks and as pathogen reservoirs. At north -ern latitudes, rodents often undergo multi- annual population cycles, and the peri -odic absence of certain hosts may inhibit the survival ...