Fig. 5
a Relative importance of categories of drivers in percent. Within ‘habitat’, drivers were grouped either according to b scale within habitat or according to c further sub groups. Both, the bars in b and in c add up to the relative importance of ‘habitat’ in a. Variables were grouped according to Additional file 1. ‘Diversity’ is composed of functional and structural, but also taxonomic (i.e. species based) diversity. Relative importance is the relative contribution of all η2 values of a group to the overall variation in the tick abundance data related to the fixed-effects part of the models