Linking weather conditions and winter tick abundance in moose

Author:

Pouchet, C, Fernandez-Prada, C, Dussault, C, Leclerc, M, Tremblay, JP, and Cote, SD

Publication type:

Journal Article

Publication date:

2024-02

Journal/Series title:

Wildlife Management

URL:

https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jwmg.22551

Abstract:

We compiled several weather variables that may limit winter tick survival and explored which weather variables, or their interactions, influenced the winter tick load of 4,100 hunted moose from 2013 to 2019 in Québec, Canada along a latitudinal gradient.