Meta-Analysis of the Relative Abundance of Nuisance and Vector Mosquitoes in Urban and Blue-Green Spaces
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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Systematic Literature Review
2.2. Meta-Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Study | Blue-Green Space | Urban Space |
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[12,19,23] | Parks and cemeteries | Suburban neighborhood |
[24] | Highly vegetated suburban neighborhoods | Scarcely vegetated urban neighborhoods |
[25] | Farm and park | Urban and suburban neighborhoods |
[22,25] | Parks | Urban and suburban neighborhoods |
[26,27,28] | Vegetated suburban areas | Scarcely vegetated urban areas |
[29] | Urban forest | Peri-urban neighborhood |
[30] | Urban green space | Densely urban area |
[15,31] | Peri-urban neighborhood | Urban neighborhood |
[10,14,20,32,33] | Suburban area | Metropolitan/urban area |
SMD | Standard Error | Z Score | p Value | |
---|---|---|---|---|
All species | −0.606 | 0.464 | −1.307 | 0.191 |
Aedes | −0.211 | 0.333 | −0.634 | 0.526 |
Anopheles | −1.273 | 1.694 | −0.752 | 0.452 |
Culex | −0.804 | 0.987 | −0.815 | 0.415 |
Artificial container species | −0.168 | 0.277 | −0.608 | 0.543 |
Floodwater species | −2.102 | 1.090 | −1.928 | 0.054 |
Aedes aegypti | 1.238 | 0.421 | 2.944 | 0.003 |
Aedes albopictus | 0.228 | 0.426 | 0.535 | 0.592 |
Culex pipiens complex | −0.498 | 0.504 | −0.989 | 0.323 |
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Rhodes, C.G.; Scavo, N.A.; Finney, M.; Fimbres-Macias, J.P.; Lively, M.T.; Strauss, B.H.; Hamer, G.L. Meta-Analysis of the Relative Abundance of Nuisance and Vector Mosquitoes in Urban and Blue-Green Spaces. Insects 2022, 13, 271. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13030271
Rhodes CG, Scavo NA, Finney M, Fimbres-Macias JP, Lively MT, Strauss BH, Hamer GL. Meta-Analysis of the Relative Abundance of Nuisance and Vector Mosquitoes in Urban and Blue-Green Spaces. Insects. 2022; 13(3):271. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13030271
Chicago/Turabian StyleRhodes, Charlotte G., Nicole A. Scavo, Micaela Finney, Juan P. Fimbres-Macias, Macey T. Lively, Brandon H. Strauss, and Gabriel L. Hamer. 2022. "Meta-Analysis of the Relative Abundance of Nuisance and Vector Mosquitoes in Urban and Blue-Green Spaces" Insects 13, no. 3: 271. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13030271