Land cover affects microclimate and temperature suitability for arbovirus transmission in an urban landscape.

• Main Authors: Michael C Wimberly (Author), Justin K Davis (Author), Michelle V Evans (Author), Andrea Hess (Author), Philip M Newberry (Author), Nicole Solano-Asamoah (Author), Courtney C Murdock (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The emergence of mosquito-transmitted viruses poses a global threat to human health. Combining mechanistic epidemiological models based on temperature-trait relationships with climatological data is a powerful technique for environmental risk assessment. However, a limitation of this approach is tha...