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Modeling Temperature Effects on Population Density of the Dengue Mosquito Aedes aegypti

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dc.contributor Biological Sciences
dc.contributor Statistics
dc.contributor Global Change Center
dc.creator El Moustaid, Fadoua
dc.creator Johnson, Leah R.
dc.date 2019-11-12T13:33:40Z
dc.date 2019-11-12T13:33:40Z
dc.date 2019-11-07
dc.date 2019-11-12T08:28:47Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:54:03Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:54:03Z
dc.identifier El Moustaid, F.; Johnson, L.R. Modeling Temperature Effects on Population Density of the Dengue Mosquito Aedes aegypti. Insects 2019, 10, 393.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95500
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10110393
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281789
dc.description Mosquito density plays an important role in the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and Zika. While it remains very challenging to estimate the density of mosquitoes, modelers have tried different methods to represent it in mathematical models. The goal of this paper is to investigate the various ways mosquito density has been quantified, as well as to propose a dynamical system model that includes the details of mosquito life stages leading to the adult population. We first discuss the mosquito traits involved in determining mosquito density, focusing on those that are temperature dependent. We evaluate different forms of models for mosquito densities based on these traits and explore their dynamics as temperature varies. Finally, we compare the predictions of the models to observations of <i>Aedes aegypti</i> abundances over time in Vitòria, Brazil. Our results indicate that the four models exhibit qualitatively and quantitatively different behaviors when forced by temperature, but that all seem reasonably consistent with observed abundance data.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject mathematical modeling
dc.subject mosquito density
dc.subject Temperature
dc.subject dengue
dc.subject mosquito-borne disease
dc.title Modeling Temperature Effects on Population Density of the Dengue Mosquito Aedes aegypti
dc.title Insects
dc.type Article - Refereed
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