Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina

Cities are unique ecosystems emerging and growing worldwide due to ongoing urbanising trends. The urban-rural gradient is an excellent setting to evaluate the effect of urbanisation on the distribution of species, a matter of public health concern in the case of disease vectors. Despite this, such d...

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Autores principales: Cardo, M.V., Vezzani, D., Rubio, A., Carbajo, A.E.
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Arthropods
Buenos Aires
Environmental gradients
Generalised linear mixed models
Mosquito vectors
Urbanisation
climate conditions
climatology
demography
disease control
disease vector
environmental gradient
heat island
meteorology
mosquito
public health
urban ecosystem
urbanization
Argentina
Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Aedes aegypti
Arthropoda
Culex pipiens
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00040894_v46_n1_p18_Cardo
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spelling todo:paper_00040894_v46_n1_p18_Cardo2023-10-03T13:57:11Z Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina Cardo, M.V. Vezzani, D. Rubio, A. Carbajo, A.E. Arthropods Buenos Aires Environmental gradients Generalised linear mixed models Mosquito vectors Urbanisation climate conditions climatology demography disease control disease vector environmental gradient heat island meteorology mosquito public health urban ecosystem urbanization Argentina Buenos Aires [Argentina] Aedes aegypti Arthropoda Culex pipiens Cities are unique ecosystems emerging and growing worldwide due to ongoing urbanising trends. The urban-rural gradient is an excellent setting to evaluate the effect of urbanisation on the distribution of species, a matter of public health concern in the case of disease vectors. Despite this, such distributions are affected by other co-occurring variables, mainly meteorological, that may be confounded by the urbanisation gradient due to the urban heat island effect and maritime climatological conditions in the case of coastal cities. To aid in the design of ecological studies within the urban-rural transition zone, a mapping protocol was designed and applied to Buenos Aires City and its surroundings. Based on road density and district-level population counts, a detailed (1km2 pixel) urbanisation map was obtained which, combined with a temperature map, rendered a final urbanisation × temperature product with six classes. The resulting zonation was tested by modelling the distribution of the vector mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Culex pipiens in artificial containers. The selected model explained the occurrence of mosquitoes 59% better than chance as a function of the urbanisation × temperature categories and the natural lighting condition of the container. This novel zonation approach allows partitioning of environmental heterogeneity prior to the selection of study sites to avoid confounding gradients and provides multiple advantages, such as making comparisons across cities easier, extrapolating the results of site-scale experiments and identifying priority areas for control measures. © 2014 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Fil:Cardo, M.V. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Vezzani, D. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Rubio, A. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil:Carbajo, A.E. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00040894_v46_n1_p18_Cardo
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topic Arthropods
Buenos Aires
Environmental gradients
Generalised linear mixed models
Mosquito vectors
Urbanisation
climate conditions
climatology
demography
disease control
disease vector
environmental gradient
heat island
meteorology
mosquito
public health
urban ecosystem
urbanization
Argentina
Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Aedes aegypti
Arthropoda
Culex pipiens
spellingShingle Arthropods
Buenos Aires
Environmental gradients
Generalised linear mixed models
Mosquito vectors
Urbanisation
climate conditions
climatology
demography
disease control
disease vector
environmental gradient
heat island
meteorology
mosquito
public health
urban ecosystem
urbanization
Argentina
Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Aedes aegypti
Arthropoda
Culex pipiens
Cardo, M.V.
Vezzani, D.
Rubio, A.
Carbajo, A.E.
Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina
topic_facet Arthropods
Buenos Aires
Environmental gradients
Generalised linear mixed models
Mosquito vectors
Urbanisation
climate conditions
climatology
demography
disease control
disease vector
environmental gradient
heat island
meteorology
mosquito
public health
urban ecosystem
urbanization
Argentina
Buenos Aires [Argentina]
Aedes aegypti
Arthropoda
Culex pipiens
description Cities are unique ecosystems emerging and growing worldwide due to ongoing urbanising trends. The urban-rural gradient is an excellent setting to evaluate the effect of urbanisation on the distribution of species, a matter of public health concern in the case of disease vectors. Despite this, such distributions are affected by other co-occurring variables, mainly meteorological, that may be confounded by the urbanisation gradient due to the urban heat island effect and maritime climatological conditions in the case of coastal cities. To aid in the design of ecological studies within the urban-rural transition zone, a mapping protocol was designed and applied to Buenos Aires City and its surroundings. Based on road density and district-level population counts, a detailed (1km2 pixel) urbanisation map was obtained which, combined with a temperature map, rendered a final urbanisation × temperature product with six classes. The resulting zonation was tested by modelling the distribution of the vector mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Culex pipiens in artificial containers. The selected model explained the occurrence of mosquitoes 59% better than chance as a function of the urbanisation × temperature categories and the natural lighting condition of the container. This novel zonation approach allows partitioning of environmental heterogeneity prior to the selection of study sites to avoid confounding gradients and provides multiple advantages, such as making comparisons across cities easier, extrapolating the results of site-scale experiments and identifying priority areas for control measures. © 2014 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
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Vezzani, D.
Rubio, A.
Carbajo, A.E.
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Vezzani, D.
Rubio, A.
Carbajo, A.E.
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title Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina
title_short Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina
title_full Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina
title_fullStr Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: A case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate Argentina
title_sort integrating demographic and meteorological data in urban ecology: a case study of container-breeding mosquitoes in temperate argentina
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