Table 2. Taxa occurrence breadth in bacterial community of ticks (Levins index, Bsta) and taxa occurrence overlap (Pianka index, O) between tick stages, and geographic regions. Indexes vary between 0 and 1.

Bsta [0,1]	TN regiona	BL regionb	O [0,1]
N tick stagec	0.74	0.72	0.76
AD tick staged	0.67	0.69	0.80
O [0,1]	0.83	0.81

^aTN region: Trento Province.

^bBL region: Belluno Province.

^cN tick stage: Nymphs.

^dAD tick stage: Adults.