Publications by authors named "Desiree K Andersen"
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- Understanding the relationship between vectors (like mosquitoes) and animal reservoirs (including birds and crocodilians) is crucial in the context of emerging zoonotic diseases like West Nile Virus (WNV), which is primarily transmitted to humans through these vectors.
- Recent findings indicate that crocodilians can also serve as competent hosts for WNV, raising concerns about their role in the virus's transmission to mosquitoes.
- Climate change is projected to alter the distribution of both mosquito and crocodilian species in North America, increasing the risk of WNV outbreaks, particularly for people living near crocodilian habitats.
Background: Urban heat island (UHI) effect, the ubiquitous consequence of urbanization, is considered to play a major role in population expansion of numerous insects. and are the most abundant cicada species in the Korean Peninsula, where their population densities are higher in urban than in rural areas. We predicted a positive relationship between the UHI intensities and population densities of these two cicada species in metropolitan Seoul.
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