Per Moestrup Jensen

TL;DR: Improved tick surveillance with harmonized approaches for comparison of data enabling the follow-up of trends at EU level will improve the messages on risk related to tick-borne diseases to policy makers, other stake holders and to the general public.

TL;DR: A typology of monitoring categories, defined by their degree of local participation, is suggested, ranging from no local involvement with monitoring undertaken by professional researchers to an entirely local effort with monitoring undertook by local people, to help develop a protocol for monitoring in developing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 104 published environmental monitoring schemes to assess whether participation of local people in collecting and analyzing environmental knowledge influenced the speed and scale of decision-making and action.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that local people can collect forest condition data of comparable quality to trained scientists, at half the cost, and draw on their experience to propose how and where local REDD+ monitoring can be established.

TL;DR: Key areas of uncertainty include the precise influence of deer abundance on tick abundance, how tick populations are regulated, assembly of host communities and tick-feeding patterns across different habitats, reservoir competence of host species, and pathogenicity for humans of different genotypes of Borrelia burgdorferi.