Fig 1.
Site locations for small-mammal trapping in northeastern Massachusetts, Essex County, USA, for pasture-edge, natural-edge, residential-edge, and interior-forest sites.
Fig 2.
Individual abundance (mean ± SE) of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) in interior forest (INT), natural edge (NE), pasture edge (PE), and residential edge (RE) in northeastern Massachusetts during 2012 and 2013 (years combined).
Table 1.
Generalized linear models (GLM) with ΔAICc below the null model for vegetation and landscape measures for white-footed mouse abundance from 2012–2013 combined in northeastern Massachusetts.
Table 2.
Generalized linear models (GLM) with ΔAICc below the null model for vegetation and landscape measures for northern short-tailed shrew abundance from 2012–2013 combined in northeastern Massachusetts.
Fig 3.
Probability of infection by B. burgdorferi in white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) based on amount of human edge (m) within 200-m and 500-m combined radius of study sites in northeastern Massachusetts during 2012 and 2013 (years combined).
Table 3.
Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and Babesia microti infection prevalence (#infected/#tested = %) in white-footed mice and northern short-tailed shrews for interior forest, natural edge, pasture edge, and residential edge in northeastern Massachusetts at 16 study sites during 2012 and 2013.
Table 4.
Generalized linear mixed-effect models for vegetation and landscape metrics for Borrelia burgdorferi s.s. prevalence for white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) at all sites combined in northeastern Massachusetts during 2012 and 2013.