Journal article
Analysing the generality of spatially predictive mosquito habitat models
Acta Tropica, Vol.119(1), pp.30-37
2011
Abstract
The increasing spread of multi-drug resistant malaria in African highlands has highlighted the importance of malaria suppression through vector control. Its historical success has meant that larval control has been proposed as part of an integrated malaria vector control program. Due to high operation costs, larval control activities would benefit greatly if the locations of mosquito habitats could be identified quickly and easily, allowing for focal habitat source suppression. Several mosquito habitat models have been developed to predict the location of mosquito habitats. However, to what extent these models can be generalised across time and space to predict the distribution of dynamic mosquito habitats remains largely unexplored. This study used mosquito habitat data collected in six different time periods and four different modelling approaches to establish 24 mosquito habitat models. We systematically tested the generality of these 24 mosquito habitat models. We found that although habitat-environment relationships change temporally, a modest level of performance was attained when validating the models using data collected from different time periods. We also describe flexible approaches to the predictive modelling of mosquito habitats, that provide novel modelling architecture for future research efforts.
Details
- Title
- Analysing the generality of spatially predictive mosquito habitat models
- Authors/Creators
- L. Li (Author/Creator)L. Bian (Author/Creator)L. Yakob (Author/Creator)G. Zhou (Author/Creator)G. Yan (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Acta Tropica, Vol.119(1), pp.30-37
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005540378907891
- Copyright
- © 2011 Elsevier B.V.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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