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Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes

Authors :
John R. B. Palmer
Aitana Oltra
Francisco Collantes
Juan Antonio Delgado
Javier Lucientes
Sarah Delacour
Mikel Bengoa
Roger Eritja
Frederic Bartumeus
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2017)
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2017.

Abstract

Monitoring of the spread of invasive mosquitos is important both for preventing and for understanding disease outbreaks. Here the author report that a scalable citizen science system can provide accurate early warning of the invasion process of the Asian tiger mosquito in Spain, with far more scalable coverage than that of traditional surveillance methods.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
8
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.886617f3a238482da6367287b8c7a9b2
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00914-9