The importance of temperature fluctuations in understanding mosquito population dynamics and malaria risk

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Beck Johnson, Lindsay M ^a,f   Nelson, William A ^c   Paaijmans, Krijn P ^d   Read, Andrewf ^a,e   Thomas, Matthew B ^b   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a,b,e  

^a Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Delay differential equations; Malaria risk; Mosquito population dynamics; Seasonality; Temperature fluctuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014802200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160969     Document Type: Article

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