Relative effects of urbanisation, deforestation, and agricultural development on mosquito communities.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Despite numerous studies that showed negative effects of landscape anthropisation on species abundance and diversity, the relative effects of urbanisation, deforestation, and agricultural development as well as the spatial extent at which they act are much less studied. This is particularly the case for mosquitoes, which are the most important arthropods affecting human health.

Objectives

We determined the scale of effect of these three landscape anthropisation components on mosquito abundance and diversity. We then assessed which landscape variables had the most effect as well as their independent positive or negative effects.

Methods

We used mosquito data collected by Schaffner and Mathis (2013) in 16 sampling sites in Switzerland. We measured forest, urban

SUBMITTER: Perrin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10203030 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature