8. Implication of human landscape transformation on mosquito populations

Anthropogenic landscape transformation has an important effect on vector-borne pathogen transmission, especially under the perspective of increase in their distribution and incidence recent decades. Drivers diseases are attributed to global change including, but not limited to, habitat alteration simplification structures such as urbanised areas, trophic interactions, introduction invasive exotic species, or climate change. However, effects urbanisation mosquito communities still only poorly known there is relatively little understanding how human-induced rapid impacting dynamics vectors diseases. Urbanisation significant case mosquitoes, one most nuisance animals associated with human activities a high medical relevancy. For this vector abundance species richness considered lower urban areas than rural natural ones, mainly due anthropogenic that produce substantial ecological disturbances can affect animal at both levels vertebrate invertebrate organisms. container-breeding like introduced Aedes group Culex pipiens complex, seem benefit from specific features where artificial oviposition sites. Moreover, some forest japonicus, may also spread into expansion peri-urban suburban growth increasingly invade more transitional disturbed for example allotment gardens cemeteries. To sum up, studies populations surrounding anthropized environments, suggest overall community-level response urbanisation. Furthermore, research considering land cover heterogeneity environment assemblage insect essential develop adequate strategies against emerging This chapter focuses summarising works investigate community ecology.