Predicting the current and future distribution of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, across the Western US using citizen science collections

• W. Tanner Porter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tporter@tgen.org

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2611-0924

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• Zachary A. Barrand,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9281-7314

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• Julie Wachara,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

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• Kaila DaVall,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-6618

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• Joseph R. Mihaljevic,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2320-5773

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• Talima Pearson,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3696-041X

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• Daniel J. Salkeld,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Nathan C. Nieto †

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

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