Physico-Chemical and biological characterization of anopheline mosquito larval habitats Diptera: Culicidae: Implications for malaria control

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mereta, Seid Tiku ^a,b   Yewhalaw, Delenasaw ^a   Boets, Pieter ^b   Ahmed, Abdulhakim ^a   Duchateau, Luc ^b   Speybroeck, Niko ^c   Vanwambeke, Sophie O ^c   Legesse, Worku ^d   De Meester, Luc ^e   Goethals, Peter L ^b  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Generalized linear model; Macroinvertebrate predators; Mosquito control; Mosquito larvae

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALKALINITY; ALTITUDE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CANOPY; CONDUCTANCE; DECISION TREE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHIOPIA; FISH; HABITAT; HARDNESS; LAND USE; LARVA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PH; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; SOLID; TURBIDITY; VEGETATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CULICIDAE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECOSYSTEM; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84886739306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-320     Document Type: Article

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