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Partial dependency plots with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals (red) for the four most influential input parameters predicting the rate of infected tick spread (km/day) with 5% tick establishment threshold (a), tick infection prevalence (b) and maximum density of infected ticks (number of ticks/km²) (c). The maximum density of infected ticks was log-transformed. Black tick marks at the top of plots represent raw data. Relative influence of each input parameter is in parentheses.
