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1 December 2011 Weather and Landscape Factors Associated with Adult Mosquito Abundance in Southwestern Georgia, U.S.A.
Eva A. Buckner, Mark S. Blackmore, Stephen W. Golladay, Alan P. Covich
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Abstract

Mosquito community composition and population dynamics were compared to weather variables and land use/cover data during 2008 to determine which variables affected population dynamics at the J. W. Jones Ecological Research Center in southwestern Georgia. Models relating adult mosquito distributions to weather variables and time of year were compared using Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) model selection. Precipitation, temperature, humidity, and Keetch-Byram Drought Index were important factors correlated with mosquito abundance or presence/absence for the species considered. A cluster analysis, which grouped eight sites based on the percentages of land use/cover and hydric soils located in a 1-km radius surrounding collection sites, and an indicator species analysis were used to investigate the associations among 11 mosquito species and sites with similar land use/cover. Aedes albopictus (Skuse), Culex coronator Dyar & Knab, Culex quinquefasciatus Say, and Culex salinarius Coquillett were associated with sites that had the most anthropogenic influence, while Coquillettidia perturbans (Walker) and Psorophora ferox (von Humboldt) were associated with natural land cover such as wetlands and forested land. This study demonstrates that regional climate and land use/cover data can be predictive of the population dynamics of certain mosquito populations and is the first to examine how the distribution of Cx. coronator adults relate to land use/cover in the southeastern United States.

Eva A. Buckner, Mark S. Blackmore, Stephen W. Golladay, and Alan P. Covich "Weather and Landscape Factors Associated with Adult Mosquito Abundance in Southwestern Georgia, U.S.A.," Journal of Vector Ecology 36(2), 269-278, (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1948-7134.2011.00167.x
Received: 21 April 2010; Accepted: 14 September 2010; Published: 1 December 2011
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land use/cover
Mosquito community
weather
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