Fig. 3

Correlations between the total I. ricinus larval burden of small mammal and the questing I. ricinus nymph abundance. The questing I. ricinus nymph abundance in the spring is modelled as a function of the total I. ricinus larval burden the previous year for wood mice on the left and for bank voles on the right, for the agricultural landscape (first and second rows) and the forest landscapes (third and fourth rows), in spring (first and third rows) and autumn (second and fourth rows). For each panel, the line of best fit from the simple linear regression (when significant), the R² value and p-value are shown