Mosquito Surveys Along Anthropogenic Impact Gradients: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project
Author(s): Allison T Parker
Northern Kentucky University
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Summary:
This project explores the role of human land use and other environmental factors that affect native and invasive mosquito species distributions and the diseases that they can vector.
Description
This project explores the role of human land use and other environmental factors that affect native and invasive mosquito species distributions and the diseases that they can vector. Students can collect data on campus or from their homes by collecting water in containers and monitoring them for mosquito eggs and larvae. Publicly available nation-wide data on mosquito abundances will be examined relative to a variety of environmental variables and related back to data collected by students. This project can be the subject of a course laboratory activity lasting between 2 and 4 weeks.
Cite this work
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Parker, A. T. (2020). Mosquito Surveys Along Anthropogenic Impact Gradients: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project. EREN: Ecological Research as Education Network, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/9S4H-DG39