Table 3 A breakdown of the parent themes (n = 13) identified using AI-based thematic analysis including 113 papers related to climate change impacts on vector distribution. A full list of the noun phrases within each theme is presented in the Supplementary Material
From: Climate change as a wildlife health threat: a scoping review
Parent theme | No. of noun phrases in the parent theme | Top noun phrase in the parent theme | No. of papers with parent theme included (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Pathogens | 9 | Pathogen transmission dynamics | 85 (75.2) |
Host | 8 | Host population density | 56 (49.6) |
Ticks | 9 | Ixodes spp. | 54 (47.8) |
Human | 2 | Human/public health | 51 (45.1) |
Disease | 3 | Zoonotic diseases | 42 (37.2) |
Health | 6 | Wildlife health | 41 (36.3) |
Control | 4 | Surveillance systems | 36 (31.9) |
Wildlife | 3 | Wildlife habitats | 28 (24.8) |
Factors | 3 | Environmental factors | 27 (23.9) |
Virus | 4 | Tick-borne encephalitis virus | 26 (23.0) |
Range | 2 | Range expansion or shifts | 26 (23.0) |
Species | 2 | Moose (Alces alces) | 15 (13.3) |
Vector | 3 | Vector biology and ecology | 7 (6.2) |