The abundance of ticks relating with or without vegetation on the edges of the two walking trails and utilization of the trails by wild mammals
2019
Sawahata, T. | Goda, A.
To compare the abundances of ticks between the sites covered with- and without-vegetation on the edges of walking trail, ticks were collected by flagging from two sites of the both edges with vegetation and with leaf litter on the two walking trails in a Quercus serrata secondary forest at monthly intervals from June to December in 2015. The total number of ticks tended to show little difference between the edges of the walking trails covered with vegetation and with leaf litter. However, the seasonal change in their abundances tended to differ between the edge covered with vegetation and with leaf litter. We recorded the frequency of utilization of the trails by wild mammals with trap cameras settled between the study sites on the two trails for ten days of each month to compare the correlation between the abundances of ticks and wild mammals. Seven species of wild mammals were recorded, and only the frequency of feral cats only had highly correlated with the total number of ticks.
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