Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes
Monitoring of the spread of invasive mosquitos is important both for preventing and for understanding disease outbreaks. Here the author report that a scalable citizen science system can provide accurate early warning of the invasion process of the Asian tiger mosquito in Spain, with far more scalab...
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Nature Portfolio
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/886617f3a238482da6367287b8c7a9b2 |
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Sumario: | Monitoring of the spread of invasive mosquitos is important both for preventing and for understanding disease outbreaks. Here the author report that a scalable citizen science system can provide accurate early warning of the invasion process of the Asian tiger mosquito in Spain, with far more scalable coverage than that of traditional surveillance methods. |
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