How did the author sample ticks at each of the study sites? The author dragged a piece of cloth along a transect every one to two weeks and collected ticks on the cloth. The author sprayed toxins on specified plots of vegetation, and collected all the dead ticks from the ground. The author used pitfall traps to capture ticks crawling along the ground. The author caught a variety of mammal and avian hosts and recovered ticks by dusting animals with a mild pesticide.   Article Link https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201665

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