 Modeling the dynamics of mosquito breeding sites vs rainfall in Barkedji area, SenegalDominique J. Bicout, Mathias Vautrin, Cecile Vignolles and Philippe Sabatier Ecological Modelling, 2015, vol. 317, issue C, 41-49 Abstract: Mosquito-borne diseases like Rift Valley Fever and Malaria that cause serious health threat to human and livestock populations are known to correlate with the tremendous increase of associated mosquito vectors following periods of widespread and heavy rainfall. In the Barkedji area, Senegal, rainfall occur only during the July–October wet season, and mosquito breeding sites are provided by relatively small temporary ponds, which account for the vast majority of the water surfaces during the rainy season. Given that rain fed ponds play a key role in the epidemiology of the mosquito-borne diseases, we have developed an approach allowing to model the flooding/drying dynamics of rain fed ponds in the Barkedji area by combining the detection of ponds using optical remote sensing techniques, field data on a small set of monitored ponds and modeling of both the pond profile, shapes and the flooding/drying dynamics at the single-pond level for each pond in the entire region. Keywords: Mosquito breeding sites; Pond dynamics; Rainfall (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:317:y:2015:i:c:p:41-49 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.08.027 Access Statistics for this article Ecological Modelling is currently edited by Brian D. Fath More articles in Ecological Modelling from Elsevier |
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