About the Authors
- Kyeongah Nah
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Felicia Maria G. Magpantay
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Ákos Bede-Fazekas
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary, GINOP Sustainable Ecosystems Group, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, Hungary
- Gergely Röst
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
- Attila János Trájer
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Limnology, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary, Institute of Environmental Engineering, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
- Xiaotian Wu
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation College of Arts and Sciences, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China
- Xue Zhang
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
- Jianhong Wu
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: wujh@mathstat.yorku.ca
Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
This research is part of the project entitled ‘`Estimating risk of tick-borne encephalitis with changes in climate, habitation and recreational activities" which received funding from GlaxoSmithKline SA (HO-17-18014 [K.N., X.Z., J.W.] https://www.gsk.com). GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA was provided the opportunity to review a preliminary version of this manuscript for factual accuracy but the authors are solely responsible for final content and interpretation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.