Weather variability impacts on oviposition dynamics of the southern house mosquito at intermediate time scales

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 633-641

  Chaves, L F ^a   Kitron, U D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; Culex quinquefasciatus; habitat selection; Schmalhausen's law; urban ecology; wavelets

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; RAIN;

DISEASE VECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FITNESS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOSQUITO; OVIPOSITION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; WAVELET; WEATHER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMIDITY; OVIPOSITION; RAIN; TIME FACTORS;

CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 80255127564     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: 14752670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007485310000519     Document Type: Article

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