Shady business: understanding the spatial ecology of exophilic Anopheles mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the ecology of exophilic anophelines is a key step toward developing outdoor control strategies to complement existing indoor control tools against malaria vectors. This study was conducted to assess the movement pattern of exophilic Anopheles mosquitoes between blood meal sources and resting habitats, and the landscape factors dictating their resting habitat choice.

Results

Resting clay pots were placed at 5 m, 25 m, 50 m, 75 m and 100 m away from isolated focal houses, radiating from them in four directions. The locations of the clay pots represent heterogeneous land cover types at a relatively fine spatial scale in the landscape. The effect of the landscape characters on the number of both female and male anophelines caught was modelled using zero

SUBMITTER: Debebe Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173902 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature