Tropical mosquito assemblages demonstrate 'Textbook' annual cycles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Franklin, Donald C ^a   Whelan, Peter I ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Medical Entomology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL MOSQUITO ASSEMBLAGE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CULICIDAE; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77949504147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008296     Document Type: Article

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