Environmental drivers, climate change and emergent diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and their vectors in southern Europe: A systematic review

Brugueras, Sílvia; Fernández-Martínez, Beatriz; Puente, Josué Martínez‐de la; Figuerola, Jordi; Porro, Tomas Montalvo; Rius, Cristina; Larrauri, Amparo; Gómez-Barroso, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.110038

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“…All vector-borne diseases combined account for about 17% of the global disease burden, currently endangering around 80% of the world’s population [ 4 ]. However, ongoing processes like urbanization, alterations in agricultural practices, deforestation, climate change as well as socioeconomic developments influence the prevalence and geographic ranges of both vectors and vector-borne pathogens [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Furthermore, different mosquito species can act as the principal vector for the same pathogen depending on whether the transmission cycle takes place in a sylvatic, rural or urban setting [ 8 , 9 ].…”

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Friends in All the Green Spaces: Weather Dependent Changes in Urban Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance and Diversity

Kirik

Burtin

Tummeleht

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Insects

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Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are universally recognized as troublesome pests and vectors of various pathogens and parasites. Understandably, the species makeup and diversity of individual populations depends on local and broad scale environmental trends, especially on temperature and hydrological variations. Anthropogenic landscapes make for unique habitats, but their effect on insects likely varies across climatic regions. The aim of this study was to investigate the diversity and seasonal patterns of urban mosquitoes in the boreal region. Specimens were collected with an insect net from May to September during three years and determined to species or species group level. Weather information was added to each data point and results analyzed using multivariate regression models. Fieldwork yielded 1890 mosquitoes from four genera. Both abundance and the effective number of species (ENS) significantly decreased during the study period. The number of collected mosquitoes had a negative correlation with wind speed and temperature, latter of which exhibited a negative association with humidity. Species succession followed predictable patterns, but with some variation between years. Still, Culex pipiens/Culex torrentium were the most abundant throughout the study. Importantly, all dominant species were known disease vectors. Our work showed that higher temperatures could result in fewer mosquitoes in boreal towns.

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Friends in All the Green Spaces: Weather Dependent Changes in Urban Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance and Diversity

Kirik

Burtin

Tummeleht

et al. 2021

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“…Global warming is also having a high impact on the ecosystems in Europe influencing animals and plants distribution and their life cycles. An increase of cases due to vector‐borne diseases like Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue, West Nile and Malaria was observed during the last decade in Southern Europe confirming that climate changes are causing the expansion of the distribution of some species of mosquitos (Brugueras et al ., 2020). Other studies showed that warmer temperatures have favoured seed production of some plants and the proliferation of tick nymphs increasing the risk of tick‐borne diseases (Bregnard et al ., 2020).…”

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Global warming impact on the expansion of fundamental niche of Cryptococcus gattii VGI in Europe

Cogliati

2021

Environ Microbiol Rep

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In the present study, we analysed how geographical distribution of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii VGI in Europe and Mediterranean area has evolved in the last four decades based on the climatic changes, and we tried to predict the scenario for the next decade. Niche modelling by Maxent analysis showed that recent climate changes have significantly affected the distribution of the fungus revealing a gradual expansion of the fundamental niche from 1980 to 2009 followed by an impressive increase in the last decade (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019) during which the environmental surface suitable for the fungal survival was more than doubled. In the next decade, our model predicted an increase in the area of distribution of C. gattii VGI from the coasts of the Mediterranean basin towards the more internal sub-continental areas. On the basis of these predictions, an increase of cases of cryptococcosis due to C. gattii VGI is expected in the next decade and a constant monitoring of the epidemiology of this fungal pathogen represents a crucial strategy to detect the onset of future outbreaks.

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“…Auch der Klimawandel wird Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit haben: Man geht von Todesfällen durch extreme Wetterbedingungen, aber auch durch Infektionskrankheiten, deren Ausbreitung durch höhere Temperaturen begünstigt wird, aus [11]. Befürchtet wird eine Zunahme von Erkrankungen in Europa, die durch Zecken oder Mücken übertragen werden [12][13][14].…”

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Das Soziale in Medizin und Gesellschaft: Megatrends fordern uns heraus

Riedel‐Heller

Seidler²

2021

Gesundheitswesen

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Environmental drivers, climate change and emergent diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and their vectors in southern Europe: A systematic review

Cited by 118 publications

References 88 publications

Friends in All the Green Spaces: Weather Dependent Changes in Urban Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance and Diversity

Friends in All the Green Spaces: Weather Dependent Changes in Urban Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance and Diversity

Global warming impact on the expansion of fundamental niche of Cryptococcus gattii VGI in Europe

Das Soziale in Medizin und Gesellschaft: Megatrends fordern uns heraus

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