Supporting Data for UPTick Project Active Tick Surveillance, 2020 to 2021

This dataset covers information collected during One Health active surveillance activities for Lyme disease research, monthly from May to October in 2020 and biweekly for the same period in 2021. In this study, we collected ticks and trapped small mammals, tested both for tick-borne pathogens, and monitored the intensity of deer foraging activity to identify the relationship of peri-urban habitat types - namely, residential, woodland, and residential-woodland interface zones - with Lyme disease risk. This dataset includes ecologcial site characteristics observed along tick drag sampling transects, recorded at GPS waypoints every 25 metres.