The effect of global change on mosquito-borne disease

LHV Franklinos, KE Jones, DW Redding… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
More than 80% of the global population is at risk of a vector-borne disease, with mosquito-
borne diseases being the largest contributor to human vector-borne disease burden …

Biodiversity monitoring, earth observations and the ecology of scale

CB Anderson - Ecology letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Human activity and land‐use change are dramatically altering the sizes, geographical
distributions and functioning of biological populations worldwide, with tremendous …

Predictor complexity and feature selection affect Maxent model transferability: Evidence from global freshwater invasive species

BW Low, Y Zeng, HH Tan… - Diversity and Distributions, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Ecological niche models (ENMs) are widely used to address urgent real‐world
problems such as climate change effects or invasive species; however, the generality of …

Novel methods to select environmental variables in MaxEnt: A case study using invasive crayfish

Y Zeng, BW Low, DCJ Yeo - Ecological Modelling, 2016 - Elsevier
The popularity of MaxEnt in species distribution modeling has been driven by several factors
including its high degree of accuracy, and flexibility to tailor efforts to species-specific …

Mosquito-borne diseases: advances in modelling climate-change impacts

NB Tjaden, C Caminade, C Beierkuhnlein… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Vector-borne diseases are on the rise globally. As the consequences of climate change are
becoming evident, climate-based models of disease risk are of growing importance. Here …

Arbovirus vectors of epidemiological concern in the Americas: a scoping review of entomological studies on Zika, dengue and chikungunya virus vectors

R Jones, MA Kulkarni, TMV Davidson… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Three arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) causing human disease have
been the focus of a large number of studies in the Americas since 2013 due to their global …

Present and future of dengue fever in Nepal: mapping climatic suitability by ecological niche model

BK Acharya, C Cao, M Xu, L Khanal, S Naeem… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Both the number of cases of dengue fever and the areas of outbreaks within Nepal have
increased significantly in recent years. Further expansion and range shift is expected in the …

Trends in mosquito species distribution modeling: insights for vector surveillance and disease control

CA Lippi, SJ Mundis, R Sippy, JM Flenniken… - Parasites & …, 2023 - Springer
Species distribution modeling (SDM) has become an increasingly common approach to
explore questions about ecology, geography, outbreak risk, and global change as they …

Evaluation of the impacts of climate change on disease vectors through ecological niche modelling

BM Carvalho, EF Rangel, MM Vale - Bulletin of entomological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Vector-borne diseases are exceptionally sensitive to climate change. Predicting vector
occurrence in specific regions is a challenge that disease control programs must meet in …

Geographic shifts in the bioclimatic suitability for Aedes aegypti under climate change scenarios in Colombia

CVP Cabrera, JJ Selvaraj - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Abstract The Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika viruses are arboviruses predominantly
transmitted to humans through the bite of the female mosquito Aedes aegypti. Currently, the …