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Human disease risk depends on interactions among ticks and sylvatic hosts, and greater host biodiversity has been hypothesized to reduce risk through the dilution effect. However, the influence of biodiversity varies with community composition, species abundance, and habitat change. We conducted a literature review to compile biological parameter estimates for 15 common host species. These parameters were used in a mathematical model incorporating tick-to-host ratio-dependent host-finding success, allowing for incomplete redistribution of ticks, to assess transmission dynamics in the northeastern United States, where human Lyme disease incidence is high. We evaluated how species richness, evenness, and habitat changes affect nymphal infection prevalence (NIP) and density of infected nymphs (DIN). Our results indicate that many small mammal species play context-dependent roles, acting as dilution hosts in communities of highly competent hosts and as amplification hosts in lower-competence communities. Varying host density revealed \u201ctipping points,\u201d where small abundance changes led to communities producing more infected than uninfected ticks. Habitat fragmentation simulations showed that biodiversity can decrease NIP but often increases DIN. 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