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Table 3 Summary of potential driver of insecticide resistance in malaria vector populations

From: Insights and challenges of insecticide resistance modelling in malaria vectors: a review

 

Drivers of insecticide resistance

1

Rainfall

2

Temperature

3

Relative humidity

4

Precipitation

5

Elevation

6

Vegetation index

7

Wind speed and direction

8

Land-use and land-cover

9

Hydrology

10

Solar radiation

11

Surface wetness

12

Minimum surface wetness

13

Non-food crop area

14

Insecticide coverage

15

Processes leading to pesticides’ fate in the environment

16

Distance from water bodies

17

Crops and livestock farming

18

Oil spillage

19

Human population distribution

20

Drainage