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Mosquitoes are an important component of insect biodiversity across all ecosystems. As invertebrates, they are sensitive to abiotic conditions during both aquatic juvenile and terrestrial adult stages. The data here were collected to identify how mosquito species composition, phenology, and peak population abundances are influenced by changes in abiotic and biotic conditions along an urbanization gradient from residential Baltimore City to forested Baltimore County. Many of the sample sites were aligned with the LTER's stream sampling along the Gwynns Falls, with additional sites located in community gardens in residential neighborhoods near Watershed 263.
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Mosquito аbundance and species surveillance in St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1976-1997
Approximately twenty-one years of historical mosquito abundance and species surveillance data, collected by the University of Notre Dame and the St. Joseph County (IN) Health Department, from 1976 to 1997 are made available following a data rescue effort. St. Joseph County is a county in Indiana, located on the Michigan-Indiana border, 35 miles from Lake Michigan. The collected data will allow for trends in species to be followed over a wide time range and facilitate further research regarding mosquito-borne diseases, species distribution, phenology and ecological changes over time.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2016282
- PAR ID:
- 10608588
- Publisher / Repository:
- PenSoft
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Biodiversity Data Journal
- Volume:
- 12
- ISSN:
- 1314-2836
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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