EDEN - ECODIS: Zecche/PostgreSQL interface

Emerging Diseases in a Changing European Environment - EDEN

EDEN is an Integrated Project of the European Commission that aims to identify and catalogue those European ecosystems and environmental conditions which can influence the spatial and temporal distribution and dynamics of human pathogenic agents. The project develops and co-coordinate a set of generic methods, tools and skills such as predictive models, early warning and monitoring tools which can be used by decision makers for risk assessment, decision support for intervention and public health policies.
EDEN has selected a range of indicator human diseases that are especially sensitive to environmental changes and that are studied within a common scientific framework. Some of these diseases are already present in Europe (Tick- and Rodent-borne diseases, Leishmaniasis, West Nile fever), others were present historically (Malaria) or are on the fringes of Europe (Rift Valley Fever) in endemic regions of West and Northern Africa.

EDEN integrates research in 47 leading institutes from 24 countries. The eco-geographical diversity of the project area covers all relevant European eco-systems from the polar circle in the North to the Mediterranean basin and its link with West Africa in the South, and from Portugal in the West to the Danube delta in the East. EDEN is organised into a series of vertical Sub-Projects linked together by a series of Integrative Activities that include biodiversity monitoring, environmental change detection, disease modelling, remote sensing and image interpretation, information and communication.

EDEN web site

MPBA Remote Sensing pages

ECODIS: Ticks database

ECODIS: ecology and control of some zoonotic wildlife diseases

The ticks data are stored in a PostgreSQL relational database system.

For quick data browsing as well as update/adding of new entries, we recommend to use the web interface.
For statistical data analysis you may want to connect your computer via Rdbi or ODBC to the database server.

See these instructions to set up the Internet connection
See these examples how to use 'psql' (Linux) and 'R' with our data

Use the Web SQL interfaces (recommended only to visualize data or change single entries):

complete ticks database (password required)
There are legends for most tables in the ticks database. The legends explain the column names, (possible) field values etc.

Maintained by Markus Neteler (neteler AT itc.it)
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9/2003