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Silver, John B.
Mosquito ecology : field sampling methods / by John B. Silver. - 3rd ed. - Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, 2008. - xxi, 1494 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Previous ed. by: M.W. Service. London ; New York : Elsevier Applied Science, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Designing a mosquito sampling programme -- Sampling the egg population -- Sampling the larval population -- Sampling the emerging adult population -- Sampling the adult resting population -- Sampling adults by animal bait catches and by animal-baited traps -- Blood-feeding and its epidemiological significance -- Sampling adults with non-attractant traps -- Sampling adults with light-traps -- Sampling adults with carbon dioxide traps -- Sampling adults with visual attraction traps, sound traps, and other miscellaneous attraction traps -- Estimation of the mortalities of the immature stages -- Methods of age-grading adults and estimation of adult survival rates -- Estimating the size of the adult population -- Measuring adult dispersal -- Experimental hut techniques -- Indices of association and species diversity indices.
9781402066658 (hb) 1402066651 (hb)
Mosquitoes--Research--Methodology
Mosquitoes--Ecology--Research--Methodology
Mosquitoes--Control--Fieldwork
Entomology--Fieldwork
595.772 / S587
Mosquito ecology : field sampling methods / by John B. Silver. - 3rd ed. - Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, 2008. - xxi, 1494 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Previous ed. by: M.W. Service. London ; New York : Elsevier Applied Science, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Designing a mosquito sampling programme -- Sampling the egg population -- Sampling the larval population -- Sampling the emerging adult population -- Sampling the adult resting population -- Sampling adults by animal bait catches and by animal-baited traps -- Blood-feeding and its epidemiological significance -- Sampling adults with non-attractant traps -- Sampling adults with light-traps -- Sampling adults with carbon dioxide traps -- Sampling adults with visual attraction traps, sound traps, and other miscellaneous attraction traps -- Estimation of the mortalities of the immature stages -- Methods of age-grading adults and estimation of adult survival rates -- Estimating the size of the adult population -- Measuring adult dispersal -- Experimental hut techniques -- Indices of association and species diversity indices.
9781402066658 (hb) 1402066651 (hb)
Mosquitoes--Research--Methodology
Mosquitoes--Ecology--Research--Methodology
Mosquitoes--Control--Fieldwork
Entomology--Fieldwork
595.772 / S587