Response of small mammal and tick communities to a catastrophic wildfire and implications for tick-borne pathogens

Agriculture & Biology

• wildfires 98%
• small mammals 82%
• ticks 70%
• pathogens 45%
• quails 32%
• rodents 12%
• Neotoma 11%
• vegetation 11%
• tick infestations 10%
• vector-borne diseases 10%
• tick-borne diseases 10%
• canyons 10%
• normalized difference vegetation index 9%
• Peromyscus 9%
• disease reservoirs 9%
• fauna 6%
• drought 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• tick 100%
• small mammal 90%
• wildfire 77%
• pathogen 71%
• rodent 16%
• vegetation 9%
• loss 8%
• canyon 7%
• NDVI 7%
• drought 5%
• fauna 5%
• fold 5%
• cold 5%
• animal 5%