Table 2. Factors affecting the number of ticks per host animal^a.

Region	Host	Tick abundance	Host abundance	Host species richness	R2
Larvae
Northb	Mice	0.622***	−0.043***	0.012	0.867***
Southb	Mice	0.110	−0.002	0.004	0.191
Southb	Skinks	0.974***	−0.041	0.070	0.704***
Nymphs
Northb	Mice	0.111	−0.002	0.002	0.408
South	Mice	−0.005*	−0.001	<0.0001	0.472
Southb	Skinks	0.566***	0.005	−0.004	0.868***

R² values are for GLMs with “site” as a class variable (to account for environmental differences among sites) plus the variables “tick abundance” (= number of ticks collected from all hosts at the array per sample), “host abundance” (= number of host individuals captured at the array per sample), and “host species richness” (= total number of host species captured at the sample array).

^aEntries for each variable are model coefficients. Significance for independent variables and for entire model (R²): *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

^bNumbers of ticks log transformed to improve model fit.

GLM, general linear model.