Environmental and biotic factors affecting freshwater snail intermediate hosts in the Ethiopian Rift Valley region.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowledge of the distribution and habitat preference of freshwater snail intermediate hosts can provide information to initiate and set-up effective snail control programmes. However, there is limited research conducted on the factors driving the occurrence and abundance of freshwater snail intermediate hosts in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. Hence, in this study, we investigated how environmental and biotic factors influence the occurrence and abundance of the snail intermediate hosts in Ethiopian Rift Valley region.

Methods

Data on freshwater snails, physico-chemical water quality parameters, physical characteristics of habitat, predators and competitors, and anthropogenic activity variables were collected from 174 sampling sites during the wet season of 2017 and 20

SUBMITTER: Olkeba BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282061 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature