| Main Title |
Mosquito ecology : field sampling methods. |
| Author |
Silver, John B.
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| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
Springer, |
| Year Published |
2008 |
| OCLC Number |
172979485 |
| ISBN |
9781402066658 (HB); 1402066651 (HB) |
| Subjects |
Mosquitoes--Research--Methodology ;
Mosquitoes--Ecology--Research--Methodology ;
Mosquitoes--Control--Fieldwork ;
Entomology--Fieldwork
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EJEM |
QL536.S54 2008 |
|
OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC |
09/21/2009 |
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| Edition |
3rd ed. / |
| Collation |
xxi, 1494 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Previous ed. by: M.W. Service. London ; New York : Elsevier Applied Science, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents Notes |
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. |
