Publications by authors named "M Buenemann"
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- Forest edges in the Amazon, influenced by urban, rural, and natural land types, play a key role in the interaction between humans, wildlife, and mosquitoes that can spread diseases.
- Researchers studied how these different types of edges affect mosquito communities, finding that rural edges had the highest diversity of species and supported many forest-dependent mosquitoes.
- The study highlights how the surrounding landscape impacts the risk of disease transmission at forest edges, indicating that not all forest edges are equal in terms of ecological interactions.
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- * The study focused on identifying ZIKV infection in mosquitoes from urban forests in Manaus, collecting a total of 905 samples from different mosquito species over several years.
- * Findings revealed that 15% of certain mosquito pools tested positive for ZIKV, marking the first evidence of naturally infected mosquitoes in the Amazon area.
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- The study focuses on the risk of spillover and spillback of mosquito-borne viruses in neotropical regions, particularly at ecotones where humans, monkeys, and mosquitoes interact closely.
- Researchers collected and analyzed almost 9,500 mosquitoes from various distances (0, 500, 1000, and 2000 m) from a rainforest reserve in Manaus, Brazil, uncovering that mosquito diversity and community composition change significantly within the first 500 meters.
- The findings indicate that environmental variables, especially near the forest edge, influence mosquito species presence, which can help in identifying areas at higher risk for virus transmission and guide future risk assessment models.
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- Ilheus virus (ILHV) is a flavivirus carried by mosquitoes and found in Central and South America and the Caribbean, primarily affecting birds as its main host.
- Researchers analyzed ten strains of ILHV, finding significant conservation in the untranslated genomic regions, while the open reading frame showed considerable variation.
- The study establishes a basis for future ILHV research, focusing on transmission, disease potential, and risks of emergence.
High-quality soil maps are urgently needed by diverse stakeholders, but errors in existing soil maps are often unknown, particularly in countries with limited soil surveys. To address this issue, we used field soil data to assess the accuracy of seven spatial soil databases (Digital Soil Map of the World, Namibian Soil and Terrain Digital Database, Soil and Terrain Database for Southern Africa, Harmonized World Soil Database, SoilGrids1km, SoilGrids250m, and World Inventory of Soil Property Estimates) using topsoil texture as an example soil property and Namibia as a case study area. In addition, we visually compared topsoil texture maps derived from these databases.
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