A comparative assessment of adult mosquito trapping methods to estimate spatial patterns of abundance and community composition in southern Africa.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Assessing adult mosquito populations is an important component of disease surveillance programs and ecosystem health assessments. Inference from adult trapping datasets involves comparing populations across space and time, but comparisons based on different trapping methods may be biased if traps have different efficiencies or sample different subsets of the mosquito community. METHODS:We compared four widely-used trapping methods for adult mosquito data collection in Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa: Centers for Disease Control miniature light trap (CDC), Biogents Sentinel trap (BG), Biogents gravid Aedes trap (GAT) and a net trap. We quantified how trap choice and sampling effort influence inferences on the regional distribution of mosquito abundance, richness and comm

SUBMITTER: Gorsich EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6775653 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature