These maps are based on routine reports on human cases excerpted from a National Epidemiological Register which has been widely contributed by clinicians for years. Altogether 469 TBE and 866 LB cases have been validated and located. Spruce wood cultures with homogeneous structure. Mixed woods mostly with tall stems, and with prevalence of conifers. Deciduous shrubs with fine grain size of the stand mosaic.
Mixed woods stands mostly young low, and dominated by deciduous trees.
Young deciduous wood stands with homogeneous structure. Tall deciduous woods with homogeneous structure. Tall deciduous woods with heterogeneous structure. This specification of the forest types has been accepted for the description of forest types having been correlated with tick presence, and TBE or LB risk. Being aware of a lack of normality and disparate spatial resolution of the data-layers, a nonparametric robust approach was applied.