Items related to Mosquito Ecology: Field Sampling Methods, Second edition
Synopsis
Mosquitoes are vectors of disease to humans, spreading malaria to an estimated 260 million people and causing some 1 to 2 million deaths a year. Numerous methods have been devised to catch mosquitoes and many approaches employed to study their ecology and behaviour. This edition includes work on areas such as estimating adult survivorship and new sampling methods. It provides detailed descriptions and critical evaluations of traps and sampling methods that have been used to study egg, larval and adult populations. More information has been included on mosquito behaviour and ecology, such as how mosquitoes locate their hosts and are attracted to traps, larval aggregation and dispersal patterns, oviposition attractants and density dependant mortalities. New sections describe methods of remote sensing of larval habitats, blood-meal identification, forage ratios, measurements of vectorial capacity, and statistical considerations such as sample size. This book is aimed at field workers concerned with mosquito surveillance and control who wish to update their knowledge on methods for sampling larval and adult populations; scientists working in the area of disease epidemiology who need to know the methods available for measuring mosquito survival rates and dispersal; those whose interest is in the ecology and population dynamics of mosquitoes who are looking for an introduction to the literature.
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Review
As with the 1st edition, mosquito field workers should find this book extremely useful. - Cab Abstracts; ...no-one with serious interests in mosquito biology can afford to be without this book. - Bulletin of Entomological Research; Throughout, this book is well written and well illustrated. It benefits from Professor Service's lucid writing style and his clear explanations of often esoteric mathematical approaches. ... The term indispensable is overused in book reviews, but I find it hard to imagine that any person studying mosquitoes in the field could afford not to have constant access to this book - Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association; As with the 1st edition, mosquito field workers should find this book extremely useful. - CAB Abstracts
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- PublisherElsevier Applied Science
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1851667989
- ISBN 13 9781851667987
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages988
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