Land cover affects microclimate and temperature suitability for arbovirus transmission in an urban landscape.

ABSTRACT: The emergence of mosquito-transmitted viruses poses a global threat to human health. Combining mechanistic epidemiological models based on temperature-trait relationships with climatological data is a powerful technique for environmental risk assessment. However, a limitation of this approach is that the local microclimates experienced by mosquitoes can differ substantially from macroclimate measurements, particularly in heterogeneous urban environments. To address this scaling mismatch, we modeled spatial variation in microclimate temperatures and the thermal potential for dengue transmission by Aedes albopictus across an urban-to-rural gradient in Athens-Clarke County GA. Microclimate data were collected across gradients of tree cover and impervious surface cover. We developed statistica

SUBMITTER: Wimberly MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7529312 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature