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- 2017
How does the dengue vector mosquito Aedes albopictus respond to global warming?DOI: 10.1186/s13071-017-2071-2 Keywords: Aedes albopictus, Mosquito, Global warming, Seasonality, Mechanistic population modeling, Thermal reaction norms Abstract: Global warming has a marked influence on the life cycle of epidemic vectors as well as their interactions with human beings. The Aedes albopictus mosquito as the vector of dengue fever surged exponentially in the last decade, raising ecological and epistemological concerns of how climate change altered its growth rate and population dynamics. As the global warming pattern is considerably uneven across four seasons, with a confirmed stronger effect in winter, an emerging need arises as to exploring how the seasonal warming effects influence the annual development of Ae. albopictus
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