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Mosquito ecology : field sampling methods

Mosquito Ecology: Field Sampling Methods is the Third Edition of this popular reference work, originally devised and written by Professor M W Service and now updated by John B Silver. The purpose of the third edition is in keeping with the original vision of Professor Service to describe the methods and rationale for sampling mosquitoes, with particular emphasis on the ecology and behaviour of those species that play a role as vectors of human and animal diseases and infections. The book is designed to serve as a practical reference for field entomologists and mosquito control specialists and describes the sampling methods and available trapping technologies and tools for the collection of all life-stages of mosquitoes, from egg to adult. It also describes the techniques available for data analysis and discusses ecological principles of relevance to the study of field populations of mosquitoes. While concentrating primarily on mosquitoes, many of the techniques described are suitable for the study of other Diptera, including Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, Simuliidae, Phlebotominae, etc
eBook, English, ©2008
Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, ©2008
1 online resource (xxi, 1494 pages) : illustrations
9781402066665, 9781402066658, 140206666X, 1402066651
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Designing a mosquito sampling programme
Sampling the egg population
Sampling the larval population
Sampling the emerging adult population
Sampling the adult resting population
Sampling adults by animal bait catches and by animal-baited traps
Blood-feeding and its epidemiological significance
Sampling adults with non-attractant traps
Sampling adults with light-traps
Sampling adults with carbon dioxide traps
Sampling adults with visual attraction traps, sound traps, and other miscellaneous attraction traps
Estimation of the mortalities of the immature stages
Methods of age-grading adults and estimation of adult survival rates
Estimating the size of the adult population
Measuring adult dispersal
Experimental hut techniques
Indices of association and species diversity indices
Previous edition by: M.W. Service. London; New York : Elsevier Applied Science, 1993