Consequences of Landscape Fragmentation on Lyme Disease Risk: A Cellular Automata Approach
Figure 1
Tick life stages and their relations to host types.
Solid boxes indicate populations stated in the CA model. Solid arrows indicate the development of tick populations. Dashed lines show attachment relations. Two phases, questing and feeding, were stated for each post egg life stage. Host preferences of questing ticks differ between life stages. In the model, it was assumed that larvae feed on small-sized animals, adults feed on large-sized animals, and nymphs feed on both.