Acknowledgements
We thank the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and White
Buffalo Inc. for making this study possible through data contribution.
The authors would especially like to thank Pilar Fernandez and Nichar
Gregory for sharing residential tick density data from Staten Island
yards and the field assistants who helped in data collection. We also
thank Ferdinando Urbano, Johannes Signer, Pallavi Kache, Andrea
Corradini, Giole Passoni, and Nathan Ranc for help with data processing
and methodological feedback.