Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Development within Microhabitats of an Iowa Wetland
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Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) development within microhabitats of an Iowa wetland.
Although they provide a number of valuable ecological services, wetlands also may harbor mosquitoes that are vectors of human pathogens. During 2002 and 2003, we measured biological (i.e., abundances of mosquitoes, other insects, and total heterotrophic bacteria, vegetational cover, and dead organic material), chemical (i.e., pH, dissolved nitrate, dissolved nitrite, dissolved phosphate, total ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Entomology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-2585,1938-2928
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/42.4.685