Mosquito communities and disease risk influenced by land use change and seasonality in the Australian tropics

DB Meyer Steiger, SA Ritchie, SGW Laurance - Parasites & vectors, 2016 - Springer
Background Anthropogenic land use changes have contributed considerably to the rise of
emerging and re-emerging mosquito-borne diseases. These diseases appear to be …

Effects of landscape disturbance on mosquito community composition in tropical Australia

DM Steiger, P Johnson, DW Hilbert… - Journal of Vector …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging infectious diseases are considered to be a growing threat to human and wildlife
health. Such diseases might be facilitated by anthropogenic land‐use changes that cause …

Increased larval mosquito densities from modified landuses in the Kapiti region, New Zealand: vegetation, water quality, and predators as associated environmental …

PT Leisnham, DP Slaney, PJ Lester, P Weinstein - EcoHealth, 2005 - Springer
Landuse changes, including deforestation, agriculture, and urbanization, have coincided
with an increase in vector-borne diseases worldwide. Landuse changes may alter mosquito …

Integrating statistical and mechanistic approaches with biotic and environmental variables improves model predictions of the impact of climate and land-use changes …

ET Madzokere, W Hallgren, O Sahin, JA Webster… - Parasites & …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Changes to Australia's climate and land-use patterns could result in expanded
spatial and temporal distributions of endemic mosquito vectors including Aedes and Culex …

Human activities attract harmful mosquitoes in a tropical urban landscape

JM Lee, RJ Wasserman, JY Gan, RF Wilson… - EcoHealth, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Knowledge of the interrelationship of mosquito communities and land use changes
is of paramount importance to understand the potential risk of mosquito disease …

Anthropogenic landscape change and vectors in New Zealand: effects of shade and nutrient levels on mosquito productivity

PT Leisnham, PJ Lester, DP Slaney, P Weinstein - EcoHealth, 2004 - Springer
Anthropogenic environmental changes, such as deforestation, agriculture, and introduced
exotic species, have often coincided with an increase in mortality and morbidity from …

[HTML][HTML] Land use influences mosquito communities and disease risk on remote tropical islands: a case study using a novel sampling technique

DBM Steiger, SA Ritchie… - The American journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Land use changes, such as deforestation and urbanization, can influence interactions
between vectors, hosts, and pathogens. The consequences may result in the appearance …

Surrounding land use significantly influences adult mosquito abundance and species richness in urban mangroves

SB Claflin, CE Webb - Wetlands Ecology and Management, 2017 - Springer
Mangroves harbor mosquitoes capable of transmitting human pathogens; consequently,
urban mangrove management must strike a balance between conservation and minimizing …

Identifying biotic interactions which drive the spatial distribution of a mosquito community

N Golding, MA Nunn, BV Purse - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Background Spatial variation in the risk of many mosquito-borne pathogens is strongly
influenced by the distribution of communities of suitable vector mosquitoes. The spatial …

Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection

S Junglen, A Kurth, H Kuehl, PL Quan, H Ellerbrok… - Ecohealth, 2009 - Springer
Mosquito-borne infections cause some of the most debilitating human diseases, including
yellow fever and malaria, yet we lack an understanding of how disease risk scales with …