This book chapter discusses fleas, ticks, and mites. Fleas are insects with six legs, three body regions, and antennae on the head; whereas ticks and mites are arachnids with eight legs in the adult stage, two body regions, and lack antennae. All three groups are important transmitters of disease...

This synopsis provides an overview of the collection of expert opinions that considers various aspects of climate change, including predictions of future climate change, how it affects ecosystems and modelling to predict the spatial distribution of ticks and associated diseases.

This synopsis provides a brief overview of the collection of expert opinions that focus primarily on ticks and consider whether or not changes in climate affect different aspects of the tick biosphere (from physiology to ecology).

This synopsis provides a brief overview of the expert opinions related to disease that consider whether or not changes in climate affect various aspects of the tick-host-pathogen biosphere, ranging from the triangle of tick-host-pathogen molecular interactions to disease ecology in various regions...

This expert opinion provides an overview of mathematical models that have been used to assess the impact of climate change on ticks and tick-borne diseases, ways forward in terms of improving models for the recent context and broad guidelines for conducting future climate change risk assessment.

To produce temporal projections of tick distributions, two inputs are needed: present and projected. This may seem to be an unnecessary truism, but the stipulation introduces a number of challenges. This expert opinion looks at the practicalities of modelling both distributions and sets out what...

This chapter focuses on spatial distribution models (SDMs) that are essential to producing reliable models of tick distributions, both in the present time and in the future, under climate change scenarios. It highlights the opinion that careful consideration of the methods is necessary in building...

This expert opinion provides a short view of how climate change may impact the tick nervous system and its responses that enhance the tick's biological fitness. Herein, the aim is to primarily focus this work at the level of tick neural/sensory systems and discuss the potential effects of...

This expert opinion focuses on the abiotic stimuli that are being impacted by climate change and in turn affect questing or host-seeking behaviour in ticks. This is important for understanding the effects of climate change on ticks and tick-borne diseases.

Within arthropods, ticks harbour among the highest diversity of heritable endosymbionts reported so far, encompassing at least ten different bacterial genera. While the function of these heritable endosymbionts has not been fully determined yet, they have the potential to deeply influence the...