TY - JOUR
T1 - Forest edge landscape context affects mosquito community composition and risk of pathogen emergence
AU - Hendy, Adam
AU - Fé, Nelson Ferreira
AU - Pedrosa, Igor
AU - Girão, André
AU - Figueira dos Santos, Taly Nayandra
AU - Mendonça, Claudia Reis
AU - Andes Júnior, José Tenaçol
AU - Assunção, Flamarion Prado
AU - Costa, Edson Rodrigues
AU - Sluydts, Vincent
AU - Gordo, Marcelo
AU - Scarpassa, Vera Margarete
AU - Buenemann, Michaela
AU - Guimarães de Lacerda, Marcus Vinícius
AU - Gomes Mourão, Maria Paula
AU - Vasilakis, Nikos
AU - Hanley, Kathryn A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s)
PY - 2025/1/17
Y1 - 2025/1/17
N2 - Forest edges, where humans, mosquitoes, and wildlife interact, may serve as a nexus for zoonotic arbovirus exchange. Although often treated as uniform interfaces, the landscape context of edge habitats can greatly impact ecological interactions. Here, we investigated how the landscape context of forest edges shapes mosquito community structure in an Amazon rainforest reserve near the city of Manaus, Brazil, using hand-nets to sample mosquitoes at three distinct forest edge types. Sampling sites were situated at edges bordering urban land cover, rural land cover, and natural treefall gaps, while sites in continuous forest served as controls. Community composition differed substantially among edge types, with rural edges supporting the highest species diversity. Rural edges also provided suitable habitat for forest specialists, including key sylvatic vectors, of which Haemagogus janthinomys was the most abundant species sampled overall. Our findings emphasize the importance of landscape context in assessing pathogen emergence risk at forest edges.
AB - Forest edges, where humans, mosquitoes, and wildlife interact, may serve as a nexus for zoonotic arbovirus exchange. Although often treated as uniform interfaces, the landscape context of edge habitats can greatly impact ecological interactions. Here, we investigated how the landscape context of forest edges shapes mosquito community structure in an Amazon rainforest reserve near the city of Manaus, Brazil, using hand-nets to sample mosquitoes at three distinct forest edge types. Sampling sites were situated at edges bordering urban land cover, rural land cover, and natural treefall gaps, while sites in continuous forest served as controls. Community composition differed substantially among edge types, with rural edges supporting the highest species diversity. Rural edges also provided suitable habitat for forest specialists, including key sylvatic vectors, of which Haemagogus janthinomys was the most abundant species sampled overall. Our findings emphasize the importance of landscape context in assessing pathogen emergence risk at forest edges.
KW - Ecology
KW - Entomology
KW - Environmental science
KW - Public health
KW - Virology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111576
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111576
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85213827655
SN - 2589-0042
VL - 28
JO - iScience
JF - iScience
IS - 1
M1 - 111576
ER -