Differing taxonomic responses of mosquito vectors to anthropogenic land-use change in Latin America and the Caribbean.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic land-use change, such as deforestation and urban development, can affect the emergence and re-emergence of mosquito-borne diseases, e.g., dengue and malaria, by creating more favourable vector habitats. There has been a limited assessment of how mosquito vectors respond to land-use changes, including differential species responses, and the dynamic nature of these responses. Improved understanding could help design effective disease control strategies. We compiled an extensive dataset of 10,244 Aedes and Anopheles mosquito abundance records across multiple land-use types at 632 sites in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using a Bayesian mixed effects modelling framework to account for between-study differences, we compared spatial differences in the abundance and species richne

SUBMITTER: Fletcher IK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10348580 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature