The effect of local scale and landscape scale variables on Ixodes ricinus nymphs measured in buffer zones consisting of 100m increments within a 100m–1000m radius.

Presence and abundance of I. ricinus nymphs were analyzed in generalized linear mixed zero-inflated models. Estimated coefficients and significance levels for the explanatory variables from both the conditional model part (abundance) and the zero-inflated model part (presence/absence) is reported for each buffer zone size. For easier interpretation we have changed the sign of the estimates for the zero-inflated models meaning that a positive coefficient should be interpreted as a higher likelihood for tick presence.