Invasive plants + tick vectors

Managing Japanese barberry (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) infestations reduces blacklegged tick (Acari: Ixodidae) abundance and infection prevalence with Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae)

Indirect Effects of Japanese Barberry Infestations on White-Footed Mice Exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi

Long-Term Effects of Berberis thunbergii (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) Management on Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) Prevalence in Connecticut, USA

Lyme Disease-Toting Ticks Abundant on Common Invasive Plant, New Study Finds

Impacts of plant invasions on tick-borne disease risk

How to get rid of ticks-a mini-review on tick control strategies in parks, gardens, and other human-related environments

The Impact of Vegetation Changes in Savanna Ecosystems on Tick Populations in Wildlife: Implications for Ecosystem Management

Best Management Practices For Priority Invasive Plants In The Lower Hudson Valley

Multiple Introductions of the Asian Longhorned Tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) to the United States Revealed Using Mitogenomics

Recreational hazard: Vegetation and host habitat use correlate with changes in tick-borne disease hazard at infrastructure within forest stands

Variation in forest patch habitat quality for white-footed mice driven by invasive plants in an urbanizing landscape

Indirect Effects of Japanese Barberry Infestations on White-Footed Mice Exposure to Borrelia burgdorferi

Invasive honeysuckle eradication reduces tick-borne disease risk by altering host dynamics

Scale-dependent effects of nonnative plant invasion on host-seeking tick abundance

Impacts of plant invasions on tick-borne disease risk

Mechanistic pathways of tick exposure risk in native and invaded plant communities

Invasive plant removals + forest health

Removing Chinese privet from riparian forests still benefits insect pollinators five years after removal

Invasive shrub removal benefits native plants in an eastern deciduous forest of North America

Decadal Patterns of Forest and Pollinator Recovery Following Removal of an Invasive Shrub

Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Northeast: Interactions, fuels, and management implications

Berberis thunbergii (FEIS species review): Fuels, fire behavior, and management notes

Ticks + climate change 

Lyme: the first epidemic of climate change

What makes ticks tick? Climate change, ticks, and tick‐borne diseases

Effects of climate change on ticks and tick‐borne diseases in Europe

Climate change impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections

Climate change, biodiversity, ticks and tick-borne diseases: The butterfly effect

Effects of climate and climate change on vectors and vector-borne diseases: ticks are different

Ticks jump in a warmer world: Global distribution shifts of main pathogenic ticks are associated with future climate change

Projected effects of climate change on tick phenology and fitness of pathogens transmitted by the North American tick Ixodes scapularis

Assessing the influence of climate change and environmental factors on the top tick-borne diseases in the United States: a systematic review

Robotics + ticks

Robotic Control of Tick Populations

Robo-Tic: Development of a Tick-Eliminating Robot

TickBot: a novel robotic device for controlling tick populations in the natural environment

An Autonomous Robot for the Collection and Extermination of Ticks

Application and Modeling of a Tick-Killing Robot, TickBot

Implementation of a Tick-Killing Robot to Protect Children in Hampton, Virginia

A robo-tick killer

Autonomous Tick Collection Robot: Evaluating Design, Materials, and Stability for Optimum Collection

Robotic sensors + material science

The new material science towards sustainable robotics

Autonomous materials synthesis by machine learning and robotics

Mobile robots: motor challenges and materials solutions

Progress and roadmap for intelligent self‐healing materials in autonomous robotics

Controllable and reversible tuning of material rigidity for robot applications

The Role Of Material Science In The Advancement Of Robotics

New materials and advances in making electronic skin for interactive robots

Bio‐inspired design and additive manufacturing of soft materials, machines, robots, and haptic interfaces

Bounded haptic teleoperation of a quadruped robot's foot posture for sensing and manipulation

Haptic inspection of planetary soils with legged robots

Robotics + forestry

Robotics in Forestry

Sensing and Artificial Perception for Robots in Precision Forestry: A Survey

Localization and Mapping for Robots in Agriculture and Forestry: A Survey

Edge AI-Based Tree Trunk Detection for Forestry Monitoring Robotics

Advances in Forest Robotics: A State-of-the-Art Survey

DigiForests: a longitudinal LIDAR dataset for forestry robotics

Robotic monitoring of forests: a dataset from the EU habitat 9210* in the Tuscan Apennines (central Italy)

Review on Robotic Systems for Environmental Monitoring

Robotic monitoring of European habitats: a labeled dataset for plant detection in Annex I habitats of Italy

Development of roCaGo for Forest Observation and Forestry Support

Quadrupeds + forestry

Robot usability in the wild: bridging accessibility gaps for diverse user groups in complex forestry operations

Evaluating the forest ecosystem through a semi-autonomous quadruped robot and a hexacopter uav

Building Forest Inventories with Autonomous Legged Robots--System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead

Automated Tree Detection for Forest Inventory Analysis Using Low-Cost Quadrupedal Robots

Autonomous forest inventory with legged robots: system design and field deployment

Harnessing Robotics for European Union Forest Habitats Monitoring: Toward a Robotic-Assisted Framework for Standardized Field Surveys

Runtime Learning of Quadruped Robots in Wild Environments

Landslide robotics: a prototype for interactive and sustainable geohazard investigation

Walking in Mud: Modeling, Control, and Experiments of Quadruped Locomotion

Wheeled quadrupeds

Proprioceptive-Based Multimode State Estimation for Wheeled-Quadruped Robot

Wheeled-legged robots for multi-terrain locomotion in plateau environments

Quadruped Robots: Bridging Mechanical Design, Control, and Applications

Quadruped Robot Prototype for Agricultural Mobile Robotics

A Real Time Design And Implementation Of Walking Quadruped Robot For Environmental Monitoring

Robust Localization, Mapping, and Navigation for Quadruped Robots

Robotics + ecological restoration

AI-based autonomous UAV swarm system for weed detection and treatment: Enhancing organic orange orchard efficiency with agriculture 5.0

Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology

Automated precise seeding with drones and artificial intelligence for ecological restoration

UAV-assisted seeding and monitoring of reforestation sites

Drones may help replant forests—if enough seeds take root

Robotics + biomimicry

A Bio-Inspired architecture for adaptive quadruped locomotion over irregular terrain

Pegasus: a Novel Bio-inspired Quadruped Robot with Underactuated Wheeled-Legged Mechanism

Design of an Industrial-Grade Leg for a Quadruped Robot

HydroDog: A Quadruped Robot Actuated by Soft Fluidic Muscles

Remote sensing for invasives detection

Integrating artificial intelligence and UAV-acquired multispectral imagery for the mapping of invasive plant species in complex natural environments

Artificial Intelligence in Invasive Species Management: Transforming Detection and Response

Smart Chip Technology for the Control and Management of Invasive Plant Species: A Review

Monitoring Invasive Plant Species Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

Early Detection of an Invasive Alien Plant (Phragmites australis) Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles and Artificial Intelligence

Early Detection of Invasive Phragmites australis at the Tidal Marsh–Forest Ecotone with Airborne LiDAR

Remote detection of invasive plants: a review of spectral, textural and phenological approaches

A novel invasive plant detection approach using time series images from unmanned aerial systems based on convolutional and recurrent neural networks

Ecological monitoring of invasive species through deep learning-based object detection

Camera assisted roadside monitoring for invasive alien plant species using deep learning

Combining image processing and machine learning to identify invasive plants in high-resolution images

Invasive Shrub Mapping in an Urban Environment from Hyperspectral and LiDAR-Derived Attributes

Fusion of LiDAR and hyperspectral data for semantic segmentation in temperate forests

Identification of tree species based on the fusion of UAV hyperspectral image and LiDAR data in a coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest in Northeast China

Learning to combine RGB, hyperspectral, and LiDAR data: Fusion neural networks for plant classification

Control methods

Evidence for Personal Protective Measures to Reduce Human Contact With Blacklegged Ticks and for Environmentally Based Control Methods to Suppress Host-Seeking Blacklegged Ticks and Reduce Infection with Lyme Disease Spirochetes in Tick Vectors and Rodent Reservoirs

How to get rid of ticks-a mini-review on tick control strategies in parks, gardens, and other human-related environments

Review: Application of Tick Control Technologies for Blacklegged, Lone Star, and American Dog Ticks

Long-Term Effects of Berberis thunbergii (Ranunculales: Berberidaceae) Management on Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Abundance and Borrelia burgdorferi (Spirochaetales: Spirochaetaceae) Prevalence in Connecticut, USA

Are host control strategies effective to eradicate tick-borne diseases (TBD)?

Fence and Fencibility: Using Technology to Direct Wildlife

Tick Control Methods for Amblyomma americanum in Virginia: Applications and Modeling

Tick control strategies: Critical insights into chemical, biological, physical, and integrated approaches for effective hard tick management

The black-legged tick Ixodes scapularis detects CO₂—implications for trap and sensor design

Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts

Is dragging a drag or is trapping a trap? A comparison of drag and CO₂-baited trap sampling for Amblyomma americanum

Tick survey methods

Exploring Local Environmental Factors Influencing Geographic Distribution of Black-Legged Tick Questing Activity

Mechanical Devices for Census and Detection of Off-Host Larval Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)

Mechanical devices for census and detection of off-host larval ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) with emphasis on the Cattle Fever Tick.

Advances in integrated tick management research for area-wide mitigation of tick-borne disease burden

A Simple, Inexpensive Method for Mark-Recapture of Ixodid Ticks

Accounting for missing ticks: Use (or lack thereof) of hierarchical models in tick ecology studies

Improving Surveillance of Human Tick-Borne Disease Risks: Spatial Analysis Using Multimodal Databases

Relative Efficiency of Drag Fabrics for Collection of Blacklegged Tick (Acari: Ixodidae) Larvae, Nymphs, and Adults

A comparison of methods for sampling the deer tick,Ixodes dammini, in a Lyme disease endemic area

Tick Densities and Infection Prevalence on Coastal Islands in Massachusetts, USA: Establishing a Baseline. Insects 2023, 14, 628

Tick population trends and forest type

A citizen science approach to investigate the distribution, abundance, and pathogen infection of vector ticks through active surveillance

Using Mark-Recapture to Estimate Population Size and Host Finding Behavior of Adult Ixodes Scapularis Ticks in Addison County, Vermont

Tick-borne illness

Ecology of Powassan Virus in the United States

Increased risk of tick-borne diseases with climate and environmental changes

Validating a common tick survey method: cloth-dragging and line transects

Potential drivers of human tick-borne encephalitis in the Örebro region of Sweden, 2010–2021

Pitfalls in tick and tick-borne pathogens research, some recommendations and a call for data sharing

Testing the efficiency of capture methods for questing Hyalomma lusitanicum (Acari: Ixodidae), a vector of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus

Scent detection dogs detect a species of hard tick, Dermacentor albipictus, with comparable accuracy and efficiency to traditional tick drag surveys

For the people by the people: Citizen science web interface for real‐time monitoring of tick risk areas in Finland

Upcycling & biomass utilization

Application of Invasive Plants as Biochar Precursors in the Field of Environment and Energy Storage

Woody and herbaceous invasive alien plant species-derived biochars are potentially optimal for soil amendment

Invasive plants as potential sustainable feedstocks for biochar: A review

Energy Recovery from Invasive Species: Creation of Value Chains to Promote Control and Eradication

Bioenergy from invasive species: Current status and future prospects

Human dimensions + policy

Outcome-Based Forestry: A Case Study of the First Private Landowner’s Implementation of an Alternative to Maine’s Forest Practices Act

Economic Burden of Reported Lyme Disease in High-Incidence Areas, United States, 2014–2016.

Family forest landowner preferences for managing invasive plants

Private Forest Owners and Invasive Plants: Risk Perception and Mitigation Practices

Invasive Species Initiatives in the Northeast States

Halting the Invasion: State Tools for Invasive Plant Management

INHABIT: A web tool for invasive plant management across the U.S.

Predicted occurrence and abundance habitat suitability of invasive plants in the contiguous United States: updates for the INHABIT web tool