Larval habitat associations with human land uses, roads, rivers, and land cover for Anopheles albimanus, A. pseudopunctipennis, and A. punctimacula (Diptera: Culicidae) in coastal and hiqhland Ecuador

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 MAR, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pinault, Lauren L ^a   Hunter, Fiona F ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Ecuador; Highland malaria; Land cover; Land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866303587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00059     Document Type: Article

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