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Controlling tick-borne diseases through domestic animal management: a theoretical approach

<13> A summary of the results presented here has appeared in a Scottish Government policy brief (http://www.knowledgescotland.org/briefings.php?id=205) in which policy implications are discussed. It has led to further collaboration with the James Hutton Institute through a new PhD student extending this work to investigate the impact of climate change on tick-borne diseases using an interdisciplinary approach combining modelling, environmental GIS data, biological data on tick life-cycles and epidemiological data on disease transmission. The work has also resulted in articles in the industry press, for example, “Farming sheep for tick control – implications for biodiversity?” (Biodiversity and Farming, RESAS Programme magazine, 2011.)