Sample name: Antanifotsy

Sample aka: Ambongamarina

Reference: M. C. Tantely, J.-C. Rakotoniaina, E. Tata, L. Andrianaivolambo, D. Fontenille, and N. Elissa. 2012. Modification of Anopheles gambiae distribution at high altitudes in Madagascar. Journal of Vector Ecology 37(2):402-406 [ER 2302]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical savanna

Altered habitat: cropland

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 17.5

WMT: 20.2

CMT: 13.7

MAP: 2300.0

Habitat comments: "open savanna... The landscape consists of narrow strips of lowland rice and food crops, sisal hedges and banana plantations, and 120 houses with 553 inhabitants in the village. There are two crops of rice annually"
climate data are for Mandraka natural forest and are from Ramananantoandro et al. (2016, Annals of Forest Science)

Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,butterfly nets,baited,light traps,pitfall traps,hand capture

Sample size: 28529 individuals

Years: 2008 - 2010

Seasons: dry,wet or monsoon

Sampling comments: the study was between January, 2009 and July 2010 with sampling "every month during the rainy season from November to March, and once in June or July for the dry season... butterfly nets and a backpack were used for daytime catches of imagoes in outdoor and indoor shelters and in Muirhead Thomson (1958) pit traps. This latter is a rectangular pit... CDC- light traps and net traps baited with animals or humans were used for night catches"

Sample number: 2431

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-12-30 14:36:55

Modified: 2020-05-29 10:40:28