Land use and land cover changes and spatiotemporal dynamics of anopheline larval habitats during a four-year period in a highland community of Africa

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1079-1084

  Munga, Stephen ^a   Yakob, Laith ^b   Mushinzimana, Emmanuel ^c   Zhou, Guofa ^b   Ouna, Tom ^a   Minakawa, Noboru ^c   Githeko, Andrew ^a   Yan, Guiyun ^b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; KENYA; LAND USE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PASTURELAND; RIVER; SCRUB; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; STREAM (RIVER); SWAMP; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TIME;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KENYA; LARVA; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73949148201     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0156     Document Type: Article

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