| using a rule-based envelope model to predict the expansion of habitat suitability within new zealand for the tick haemaphysalis longicornis, with future projections based on two climate change scenarios. | haemaphysalis longicornis is the only species of tick present in new zealand which infests livestock and is also the only competent vector for theileria orientalis. since 2012, new zealand has suffered from an epidemic of infectious bovine anaemia associated with t. orientalis, an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite of cattle and buffaloes. the aim of this study was to predict the spatial distribution of habitat suitability of new zealand for the tick h. longicornis using a simple rule-bas ... | 2017 | 28807298 |