Mosquito Habitats, Land Use, and Malaria Risk in Belize From Satellite Imagery

Pope, Kevin; Masuoka, Penny; Rejmánková, Eliška; Grieco, John P.; Johnson, Sarah K.; Roberts, Donald R.

doi:10.1890/04-0934

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“…), see Fig. 3, with important consequences for the larval mosquito community (Pope et al 2005. Sparse macrophytes provide typical habitat for Anopheles albimanus larvae, whereas Typha spp.…”

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The role of macrophytes in wetland ecosystems

Rejmánková¹

2011

J. Ecol. Environ.

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Aquatic macrophytes, often also called hydrophytes, are key components of aquatic and wetland ecosystems. This review is to briefly summarizes various macrophyte classifications, and covers numerous aspects of macrophytes' role in wetland ecosystems, namely in nutrient cycling. The most widely accepted macrophyte classification differentiates between freely floating macrophytes and those attached to the substrate, with the attached, or rooted macrophytes further divided into three categories: floating-leaved, submerged and emergent. Biogeochemical processes in the water column and sediments are to a large extent influenced by the type of macrophytes. Macrophytes vary in their biomass production, capability to recycle nutrients, and impacts on the rhizosphere by release of oxygen and organic carbon, as well as their capability to serve as a conduit for methane. With increasing eutrophication, the species diversity of wetland macrophytes generally declines, and the speciose communities are being replaced by monoculture-forming strong competitors. A similar situation often happens with invasive species. The roles of macrophytes and sediment microorganisms in wetland ecosystems are closely connected and should be studied simultaneously rather than in isolation.

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The role of macrophytes in wetland ecosystems

Rejmánková¹

2011

J. Ecol. Environ.

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“…merging infections of humans and wildlife are often closely associated with anthropogenic alterations of the ecological and evolutionary relationships between hosts and pathogens, including climate change, biological invasions, land use change, and pollution (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). Owing to the complexity of pathogen-host-environment interactions, however, experimental evidence linking environmental change and increased infection is often lacking, leaving the ecosystem drivers of many emerging diseases unknown (5)(6)(7).…”

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Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The widespread emergence of human and wildlife diseases has challenged ecologists to understand how large-scale agents of environmental change affect host-pathogen interactions. Accelerated eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems owing to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment is a pervasive form of environmental change that has been implicated in the emergence of diseases through direct and indirect pathways. We provide experimental evidence linking eutrophication and disease in a multihost parasite system. The trematode parasite Ribeiroia ondatrae sequentially infects birds, snails, and amphibian larvae, frequently causing severe limb deformities and mortality. Eutrophication has been implicated in the emergence of this parasite, but definitive evidence, as well as a mechanistic understanding, have been lacking until now. We show that the effects of eutrophication cascade through the parasite life cycle to promote algal production, the density of snail hosts, and, ultimately, the intensity of infection in amphibians. Infection also negatively affected the survival of developing amphibians. Mechanistically, eutrophication promoted amphibian disease through two distinctive pathways: by increasing the density of infected snail hosts and by enhancing per-snail production of infectious parasites. Given forecasted increases in global eutrophication, amphibian extinctions, and similarities between Ribeiroia and important human and wildlife pathogens, our results have broad epidemiological and ecological significance.amphibian decline ͉ emerging disease ͉ environmental change

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“…A difference in the qualitative and quantitative mosquito compositions in different habitats is expected and noted in many papers (Rueda et al 2001;Cooper et al 2004;Pope et al 2005;Dale et al 2008). However, this study points out the relatively small number of species within the association of Genisto elataeQuercetum roboris caused by consecutive dry seasons, while previous research had shown a large number of species in this habitat (Merdić & Lovaković 1999) The Fuzzy c-means cluster analysis was used because of its reliability and the nature of the data, more specifically because of probability to classify each element to a cluster (Equihua 1990;Jain et al 1999).…”

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Efficacy of mosquito attractants in various habitats of a floodplain

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Efficacy of different mosquito attractants was invesigated at four sites in three plant communities (GalioSalicetum albae, Populetum nigro-albae, Genisto elatae-Quercetum roboris) of flooded and forest habitats in Kopački rit Nature Park, Croatia. The attractants were: dry ice, horse urine, horse urine + acetone, acetone, 1-octen-3-ol and ammonium hydroxide baited CDC traps. A total of 11,441 mosquito specimens of 12 species were collected. Aedes vexans (91.43%) was the most numerous species. A statistically significant difference between the efficacy of dry ice and the other attractants was shown, whereas there was no difference between the other attractants. A greater number of specimens and species number were noted in the flooded plant communities (Populetum nigro-albae). The response of Ae. vexans to dry ice was higher in flooded sites, and it was significantly lower in forest habitat (Genisto elatae-Quercetum roboris) according to fuzzy c-means cluster analysis. The same analysis shows a higher efficacy of other attractants (horse urine, horse urine + acetone, acetone, octenol and ammonium hydroxide) in forest habitat when compared to the flooded area habitats.

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Mosquito Habitats, Land Use, and Malaria Risk in Belize From Satellite Imagery

Cited by 103 publications

References 28 publications

The role of macrophytes in wetland ecosystems

The role of macrophytes in wetland ecosystems

Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians

Efficacy of mosquito attractants in various habitats of a floodplain

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