An up to date list of peer-reviewed publications can be found via Google Scholar (link) and Research Gate (link).

Scientific publications

• Rousseau R., Dion E., Quinet C., Vanwambeke S.O., Estimating the risk/intensity of tick-borne diseases with a kernel density function. Accepted in Ticks and tick-borne diseases.

• Dellicour S., Linard C., Van Goethem N., Da Re D., Artois J., Bihin J., Schaus P., Massonet F., Van Oyen H., Vanwambeke S.O., Speybroek N., Gilbert M., 2021, Investigating the drivers of the spatial-temporal heterogeneity in COVID-19 hospital incidence - Belgium as a study case. International Journal of Health Geographics 20 (29) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-021-00281-1.
• Chaiban C., Da Re D., Robinson T.P., Gilbert M., Vanwambeke S.O., 2021, Poultry farm distribution models along a gradient of intensification, Preventive and Veterinary Medicine 186 (105206) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.105206.
• Da Re D., Montecino-Latorre D., Vanwambeke S.O., Marcantonio M., 2021, Simulating the re-introduction of Aedes aegypti in Europe. Will the Yellow fever mosquito colonize the old world? Ecological informatics 161 (101180) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101180.
• Vanwambeke S.O., Linard C., Gilbert M., Dellicour S., 2020, SARS-CoV-2 emergence and diffusion: a new disease manifesting human-environment interactions and a global geography of health. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability 46: 43–45.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.10.011
• van Bellen S., de Vernal A., To A., Ouellet-Bernier M.-M.,Roy N. and climhunor members (Fichefet T., Goosse H., Vanwambeke S., van Ypersele J.-P.), 2020, A database of Holocene temperature records for north-eastern North America and noth-western Atlantic. Geoscience Data Journal 7(1), p. 38-43 https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.89
• Jore S., Vanwambeke S.O., Slunge D., Boman A., Krogfelt K., Tugwell Jepsen M., Vold L., 2020, Spatial tick-bite exposure and associated risk factors in Scandinavia. Infection Epidemiology and Ecology Vol 10 (1764693) doi: 10.1080/20008686.2020.1764693
• Chaiban C., Robinson T.P., Fèvre E.M., Ogola J., Akoko J., Gilbert M., Vanwambeke S.O., 2020,Characterization of small-scale commercial chicken production in a distant rural area of a lower-middle-income country, Animal https://doi.org/10.1017/S175173112000110X.
• White P.C.L., Guégan J.-F., Keune H., De Bell S., Geijzendorffer I.R., Hermans T., Prieur-Richard A.-H., Iroegbu C., Stone D., Vanwambeke S. , de Vries S., Ford A., Graham H., 2020, Integrative policy development for healthier people and ecosystems: a European case analysis, Area, 12618 https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12618.
• Da Re D., Gilbert M., Bourguignon P., Chaiban C., Thanapongtharm W., Robinson T.P., Vanwambeke S.O., 2020, Downscaling livestock census data using multivariate predictive models: sensitivity to modifiable areal unit problem. PLoS One 15(1): e0221070 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221070.
• Li S., Gilbert L., Vanwambeke S.O., Yu J., Purse B.V., Harrison P.A., 2019, Lyme disease risks in Europe under multiple uncertain drivers of change In press in Environmental Health Perspectives 127 (6). doi.org/10.1289/EHP4615.
• Vanwambeke S.O., Linard C., Gilbert M., 2019, Emerging challenges of infectious diseases as a feature of land systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 38:31–36 doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.005.
• Da Re D., De Clercq E.M., Tordoni E., Madder M., Rousseau R., Vanwambeke S.O., 2019, Looking for ticks from Space: using remotely sensed spectral diversity to assess Amblyomma and Hyalomma tick abundance. Remote Sensing 11:770 doi:10.3390/rs11070770.
• Chaiban C., Biscio C., Thanapongtharm W., Tildesley M., Xiao X., Robinson T.P., Vanwambeke S.O., Gilbert M., 2019, Point pattern simulation modelling of extensive and intensive chicken farming in Thailand: accounting for clustering and landscape characteristics. Agricultural Systems 173: 335-344 doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2019.03.004.
• Vanwambeke S.O., Zeimes C.B., Drewes S., Ulrich R.G., Reil D., Jacob J., 2019, Spatial dynamics of a zoonotic orthohantavirus disease through heterogenous data on rodents, rodent infections, and human disease, Nature Scientific Reports 9: 2319 doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38802-5.
• Rodriguez-Hidalgo R., Tapia-Chiriboga A., Arciniegas S., Vanwambeke S.O., Benitez-Ortiz W., 2018, Epidemiological analysis of the New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) in Ecuador, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, published online doi.org/10.1111/tbed.13113.
• Sungirai M., Moyo D.Z., De Clercq P., Madder M., Vanwambeke S.O., De Clercq E.M., 2018, Modelling the distribution of Rhipicephalus microplus and R. decoloratus in Zimbabwe. Veterinary parasitology 14: 41-49 doi.org/10.1016/j.vprsr.2018.08.006
• Rohfritsch A., Galan M., Gautier M., Gharbi K., Olsson G., Gschloessl B., Zeimes C., Vanwambeke S., Vitalis R., Charbonnel N., 2018, Preliminary insights into the genetics of bank vole tolerance to Puumala hantavirus in Sweden, Ecology and Evolution 8:11273–11292 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4603.
• Gilbert M., Nicolas G., Cinardi G., Van Boeckel T.P., Vanwambeke S.O., Wint, G.R.W., Robinson T.P., 2018, Global distribution data for cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks in 2010, Nature Scientific Data 5: 180227. doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.227
• De Keukeleire, Robert A., Luyasu V., Kabamba B., Vanwambeke S.O., 2018, Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Belgian forestry workers and associated risk factors, Parasites and Vector 11:277 doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2860-2.
• Stefanoff P., Rubikowska B., Bratowski J., Ustrnul Z., Vanwambeke S.O., Rosinska M., 2018, A predictive model has identified tick-borne encephalitis high-risk areas in regions where no cases were reported previously, Poland, 1999-2012, International journal of environmental research and public health 15 (4): 677.
• De Keukeleire M. Vanwambeke S.O., Kabamba-Mukadi B., Belkhir L., Pierre P., Luyasu V., Robert A. , 2017, Time trend of clinical cases of Lyme disease in two hospitals in Belgium, 2000-2013, BMC Infectious Diseases: Vol. 17: 748.
• Rousseau R., McMahon B., McGrath G. Vanwambeke S.O., 2017, Multi-criteria decision analysis to model Ixodes ricinus habitat suitability. Ecohealth 14(3): 591-602. doi:10.1007/s10393-017-1247-8
• Rodriguez-Hidalgo R., Pérez-Otáñez X., Garcès-Carrera S., Vanwambeke S.O., Madder M., Benitez-Ortiz M., 2017, The current status of resistance to alpha-cypermethrin, ivermectin, and amitraz of the cattle tick (Rhipicephalus microplus) in Ecuador. PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174652
• De Keukeleire M., Vanwambeke S.O., Cochez C., Heyman P., Fretin D., De Neys V., Luyasu V., Kabamba B., Robert A., 2017, Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Francisella tularensis infections in Belgium: results of three population-based samples. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases 17(2):108-115
• Vanwambeke S.O., Li S., Hartemink N.A., 2016, A resource-based habitat concept for tick-borne diseases. Pages: 205 - 216 In:  Braks M.A.H., van Wieren S.E., Takken W., Sprong H. (eds), 2016, Ecology and prevention of Lyme borreliosis. Ecology and Control of Vector-borne diseases Vol4., Wageningen: Wageningeng Academic Publishers
• De Keukeleire M., Robert A., Kabamba B., Dion E., Luyasu V., Vanwambeke S.O., 2016, Individual and environmental factors associated with the seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Belgian farmers and veterinarians. Infection Ecology & Epidemiology 6: 32793
• Vanwambeke S.O., Van doninck J., Artois J., Davidson R.K., Meyfroidt P., Jore S., 2016, Forest classes and tree cover gradient: tick habitat in encroached areas of southern Norway. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 68(3), 375-385.
• Li S., Colson V., Lejeune P., Vanwambeke S.O., 2016, On the distance travelled for woodland leisure via different transport modes in Wallonia, South Belgium. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 15 (123-132) link
• Li, S., Colson V., Lejeune P., Speybroeck N., Vanwambeke S.O. 2015. Agent-based modelling of the spatial pattern of leisure visitation in forests: A case study in Wallonia, south Belgium. Environmental Modelling & Software 71:111-125. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.06.001
• De Keukeleire M., Vanwambeke S.O., Somassé E., Kabamba B., Luyausu V., Robert A., 2015, Scouts, forests, and ticks: impact of landscapes on human-tick contacts, Ticks and tick-borne diseases. In press. link
• Cianci D., Hartemink N., Zeimes C.B., Vanwambeke S.O., Ienco A., Caputo B., 2015, High Resolution Spatial Analysis of Habitat Preference of Aedes albopictus (Diptera:Culicidae) in an urban environment, Journal of Medical Entomology 52 (3), 329-335 link
• Zeimes CB, Quoilin S, Henttonen H, Lyytikainen O, Vapalahti O, Reynes J, Reusken C, Swart A, Vainio K, Hjertqvist M and Vanwambeke S (2015). Landscape and regional environmental analysis of the spatial distribution of hantavirus human cases in Europe. Front. Public Health 3:54. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00054 link
• De Clercq E.M., Leta S., Estrad-Peña A., Madder M., Vanwambeke S.O., 2015, Species distribution modelling for Rhipicephalus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Benin, West Africa: Comparing datasets and modelling algorithms, Preventative Veterinary Medicine, 118 (1): 8-21. DOI:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.10.015 link
• Hartemink N., Vanwambeke S.O., Purse B.V., Gilbert M., Van Dyck H., 2014, Towards a resource-based habitat approach for spatial modeling of vector-borne diseases risks. Biological Reviews, 90(4): 1151-1162. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12149 link
• Zeimes C.B., Olsson G.E., Hjertqvist M., Vanwambeke S.O., 2014, Shaping zoonosis risk: landscape ecology vs. landscape attractiveness for people, the case of tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden, Parasites & Vectors, 7:370, doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-370 link
  
• Li S., Vanwambeke S.O., Liccope A.M., Speybroeck N., 2014, Impacts of deer management practices on the spatial dynamics of the tick Ixodes ricinus: a scenario analysis, Ecological Modelling, 276: 1-13 doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.12.023
• Jore S.,  Vanwambeke S.O., ViljugreinH., IsaksenK., Kristoffersen A.B., Woldehiwet Z., Johansen B., Brun E., Brun-Hansen H., Westermann S., Larsen I.-L., Ytrehus B., Hofshagen M., 2014, Climate and environmental change drives Ixodes ricinus geographical expansion at the northern range margin, Parasites & Vectors, 7:11  doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-11, link
• Mereta S., Yewhalaw D., Boets P., Ahmed Abdulhakim A., Duchateau L., Speybroeck N., Vanwambeke S.O., Legesse W., De Meester L., Goethals P.L.M., 2013, Physico-chemical and biological characterization of anopheline mosquito larval habitats (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for malaria control, Parasites & Vectors, 6:320, doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-320 link
• De Clercq E.M., Estrada-Peña A., Adehan, S., Madder M., Vanwambeke S.O., 2013, An update on distribution models for Rhipicephalus microplus in West Africa, Geospatial Health 8(1): 301-308 link
• Keune K., Kretsch C., De BlustG., Gilbert M., Flandroy L., Van den Berge K., Versteirt V., Hartig T., De Keersmaecker L., Eggermont H., Brosens D., Dessein J., Vanwambeke S., Prieur-Richard A. H., Wittmer H., Van Herzele A., Linard C., Martens P., Mathijs E., Simoens I., Van Damme E., Volckaert F., Heyman P. and Bauler T., 2013, Science–policy challenges for biodiversity, public health and urbanization: examples from Belgium Environ. Res. Lett. 8 025015 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/025015 link
• Zeimes C.B., Olsson G.E., Ahlm C., Vanwambeke S.O., 2012, Modelling zoonotic diseases in humans: comparison of methods for hantavirus in Sweden. International Journal of Health Geographics, 11:39 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-11-39 link
• Li S., Heyman P., Cochez C., Simons L., Vanwambeke S.O., 2012, A multi-level analysis of the relationship between environmental factors and questing Ixodes ricinus dynamics in Belgium. Parasites and Vectors, 5:149 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-5-149. link
• De Clercq E.M., Vanwambeke S.O., Sungirai M., Adehan S., Lokossou R., Madder M., 2012, Geographic distribution of the invasive cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus, a country-wide survey in Benin, Experimental and Applied Acarology, 58:441-452. doi: 10.1007/s10493-012-9587-0
• Li S., Hartemink N., Speybroeck N., Vanwambeke S.O., 2012, Consequences of landscape fragmentation on Lyme disease risk: a cellular automata approach, PLoS ONE, 7(6): e39612. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039612. link
• Madder M., Walker J.G. , Van Rooyen J., Knobel D., Vandamme E., Berkvens D., VanwambekeS. O., De Clercq E.M., 2012, e-Surveillance in Animal Health: use and evaluation of mobile tools, Parasitology, 139, Special Issue 14: 1831-1842 doi:10.1017/S0031182012000571
• Vanwambeke S.O., Meyfroidt P., Nikodemus O., 2012, From USSR to EU: 20 years of landscape change in northeastern Latvia. Landscape & Urban Planning. 105: 241-249. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.12.009
• Hartemink N., Vanwambeke S.O., Heesterbeek J.A.P., Rogers D.J., Morley D., Pesson B., Davies C., Mahamdallie S., Ready P., Integrated Mapping of Establishment Risk for Emerging Vector-Borne Infections: a Case Study of Leishmaniasis in South-Western France. PLoS ONE 6(8): e20817. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020817.
• Vanwambeke S.O. Bennett S.N., Kapan D., 2011, Spatial distribution of high risk for dengue virus transmission in Oahu, Hawaii. Tropical Medicine and International Health 16 (2): 174-185 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02671.x.
• Lambin E.F., Tran A., Vanwambeke S.O., Soti V., Linard C., 2010, Pathogenic landscapes: Interactions between land, people, disease vectors, and their animal hosts. International Journal of Health Geographics 9:54 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-9-54
• Vanwambeke S.O., Šumilo D., Bormane A., Lambin E.F., Randolph S.E., 2010, Landscape predictors of tick-borne encephalitis in Latvia: land cover, land use and land ownership. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 10(5): 497-506. doi:10.1089/vbz.2009.0116
• Gondwe N., Marcotty T., Vanwambeke S.O., Mulumba M., Van den Bossche P., 2009, The distribution and density of testse flies (Glossinidae: Diptera) inside and along the edge of Nkhotakota Game Reserve in Malawi. Ecohealth. 6(2): 260-265. doi: 10.1007/s10393-009-0252-y
• Dereure J., Vanwambeke S.O., Malé P., Martinez S., Pratlong F., Balard Y., Dédet J.P., 2009, The potential effects of global warming on changes in an “ectopic” focus of canine leishmaniasis in the middle Ariège valley (Southern France), Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases 9(6): 687-694. doi:10.1089/vbz.2008.0126
• Linard C., Lamarque P., Heyman P., Ducoffre G., Luyasu V., Tersago K., Vanwambeke S.O., Lambin E.F., 2007, Determinants of the geographic distribution of Puumala hantavirus and Lyme borreliosis infections in Belgium, International Journal of Health Geographics 6:15. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-6-15
• Vanwambeke S.O., Lambin E.F., Eichhorn M.P., Flasse S.P., Harbach R.E., Oskam L., Somboon P., van Beers S., van Benthem B.H.B, Walton C., Butlin R.K., 2007, Impact of land use change on dengue and malaria in northern Thailand, Ecohealth, 4(1): 37-51. doi:10.1007/s10393-007-0085-5
• Vanwambeke S.O., Somboon P., Lambin E.F., 2007, Rural transformation and land use change in northern Thailand, Journal of Land Use Science, 2(1): 1-29.doi 10.1080/17474230601145943
• Vanwambeke S.O., Somboon P., Harbach R.H., Isenstadt M., Lambin E.F., Walton C., Butlin R.K., 2007, Landscape and land cover factors influence the presence of Aedes and Anopheles larvae, Journal of Medical Entomology, 144: 133-144. doi: 10.1603/0022-2585
• Vanwambeke S.O., van Benthem B.H.B, Khantikul N., Burghoorn-Maas C., Panart K., Oskam L., Lambin E.F., Somboon P., 2006, Multi-level analyses of spatial and temporal determinants for dengue infection, International Journal of Health Geographics, 5:5 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-5-5
• van Benthem B.H.B, Vanwambeke S.O., Khantikul N., Burghoorn-Maas C., Panart K., Oskam L., Lambin E.F., Somboon P., 2005, Spatial patterns of and risk factors for seropositivity for dengue infection, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 72 (2): 201-208. doi: 10.1080/17474230601145943

Other scientific publications

• Use of Earth observation satellites to improve effectiveness of humanitarian interventions. STENTOR report. 2020. Froment R., Van Loenhout J., Guha Sapir D., Vanwambeke S. https://cred.be/sites/default/files/STENTORReport.pdf

• Ndoricyimpaye EL, Tuyishimire J, Vanwambeke S, Mutesa L, Nyandwi E, Rujeni N, Coutelier J-P., 2020, L'épidémie de SARS-CoV-2 en Afrique sub-Saharienne, questions, craintes et espoirs. Louvain Médical 139 (05-06): 330-336.
• Vanwambeke S.O., 2016, Pathogens in an Anthropized World: Geographic Perspective on Zoonotic and Vector-borne Diseases. Bulletins des Séances de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer 62(1): 31-43.
• Vanwambeke S.O., 2012, Forest and Health: the Landscape Lens, Human Evolution/Global Bioethics, 27(1-3): 111-115
• Vanwambeke S.O., Rosen G., 2010, The fearsome and the fuzzy. Cover essay in Ecohealth doi: 10.1007/s10393-009-0265-6
• Hartemink N., Vanwambeke S.O., Heesterbeek J.A.P., Rogers D.J., Morley D., Lambin E.F., Pesson B., Davies C., Mahamdallie S., Ready P., 2009, Modelling and mapping the basic reproduction number R0 for canine leishmaniasis: a case study for a region in South West France. In: “Vector-borne diseases: the basic reproduction number R0 and risk maps”, Hartemink N., PhD dissertation.
• Martínez S., Vanwambeke S.O., Ready P., 2007, Linking changes in landscape composition and configuration with sandfly occurrence in Southwest France, IEEE, Analysis of multi-temporal remote sensing images, Multitemp 2007.
• Vanwambeke S.O., Lambin E.F., 2006, Environmental change and vector-borne diseases: the contribution of remote sensing and spatial analyses, in Geographic Medicine, edited by Verhasselt Y.L.G., in Encyclopedia of Life Support System (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, [http://www.eolss.net].
• Vanwambeke S.O., Lambin E.F., 2006, Environmental change and vector-borne diseases: the case of dengue and malaria in northern Thailand, Bulletin des Séances de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Hommage à la secrétaire perpétuelle honoraire Yola Verhasselt.