Juvenile <i>Pteropus conspicillatus</i> tick paralysis rate per 10,000 population per year, and total <i>P. conspicillatus</i> tick paralysis rate per 10,000 population per year in the affected camps as well as total population of affected camps over the 13 year study period.

<p>Juvenile <i>Pteropus conspicillatus</i> tick paralysis rate per 10,000 population per year, and total <i>P. conspicillatus</i> tick paralysis rate per 10,000 population per year in the affected camps as well as total population of affected camps over the 13 year study period.</p

Numbers of spectacled flying-foxes (<i>Pteropus conspicillatus</i>) affected by tick paralysis between 1998 and 2010 and population counts of <i>P. conspicillatus</i>.

*<p>Affected animals from Tolga scrub, Whiteing Road, and New Powley Road on the Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, Australia; **2006 count is taken from December and includes Lakeside a new camp affected by tick paralysis; ^$Animals moved to new unknown camp (Lakeside) so searches were incomplete in 2006; ^$$No details about numbers of dead adult animals available, as too many juvenile animals were in care; number of adult <i>P. conspicillatus</i> given were extrapolated from previous data; <b>^#</b>Search for affected animals stopped for 3 weeks because too many juveniles were in care; number of adult and juvenile animals based on seasonal distribution of previous years.</p

Mortality rates (per 10,000) of spectacled flying-foxes (<i>Pteropus conspicillatus</i>) caused by tick paralysis on the Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, Australia.

*<p>Upper mortality estimate is based on fly-out counts, lower number is based on day counts as available; **NA  =  not available; ^$Animals moved to new unknown camp (Lakeside) so searches were incomplete in 2006; ^$$No details about numbers of dead adult animals available, as too many juvenile animals were in care; numbers given were extrapolated from previous years.</p

Distribution of spectacled flying-fox camps in the central Wet Tropics region, Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland, Australia.

<p>The distribution of rainforest is shown in grey. Enclosed area is the core distribution of <i>Solanum mauritianum</i> based on Queensland herbarium records for the Atherton Tableland (Source: Wikipedia; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia</a>; commons map; and CSIRO, Australia).</p

Final vector auto-regression (VAR) model predicting mortality rates of spectacled flying-foxes (<i>Pteropus conspicillatus</i>) caused by tick paralysis and total population count of affected camps.

<p>L1  =  one year prior; L2 =  two years prior. Variables omitted from the analysis due to co-linearity include: Q1 Maximum Temperature; Q3 Humidity; Q3 Hours of Sunshine; Q3 Evaporation; Q4 Minimum Temperature.</p

Climate variables without a unit root in the yearly quarters (Q).

<p>Max  =  maximum; Min  =  minimum.</p