Diversity and abundance of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in an urban park: Larval habitats and temporal variation

Acta Tropica

Volumn 150, Issue , 2015, Pages 200-209

  Medeiros Sousa, Antônio R ^a   Ceretti Júnior, Walter ^a   de Carvalho, Gabriela C ^a   Nardi, Marcello S ^b   Araujo, Alessandra B ^c   Vendrami, Daniel P ^a   Marrelli, Mauro T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Parques e Áreas Verdes Prefeitura de São Paulo ^*  (Brazil)

^c CENTRO DE CONTROLE DE ZOONOSES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culicidae; Mosquito abundance; Mosquito diversity; Urban park

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; HABITAT; LARVA; MOSQUITO; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERNODE; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; ANIMAL; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; DENGUE; DIPTERA; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATIONAL PARK;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SAO PAULO [SAO PAULO (STT)];

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CITIES; DENGUE; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARKS, RECREATIONAL;

EID: 84939514918     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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