Landscape structure affects distribution of potential disease vectors (Diptera: Culicidae)

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Environmental parameters tested using PERMANOVA based on distance matrices (adonis():’vegan’ package (Oksanen et al. [54])

Environmental parameters	df	Sums of squares	Mean squares	F	R ²	Pr(>F)
Province	2	5.954	297.717	147.173	0.09416	0.001***
CLC3	11	13.981	127.101	62.831	0.22109	0.001***
Danube water level (14 days)	1	0.643	0.64250	31.761	0.01016	0.001***
Air temperature (14 days)	1	0.579	0.57925	28.635	0.00916	0.052
Relative air humidity (14 days)	1	0.541	0.54142	26.765	0.00856	0.035*
Sunshine duration (14 days)	1	0.693	0.69263	34.239	0.01095	0.002**
Amount of precipitation (14 days)	1	0.241	0.24102	11.915	0.00381	0.313
Distance to the nearest wetland	1	0.437	0.43724	21.615	0.00691	0.001***
CLC3: Distance to the nearest wetland	3	1.731	0.57697	28.522	0.02737	0.026*
Residuals	190	38.435	0.20229		0.60781
Total	212	63.236			100.000

Asterisks indicate significant effects of certain environmental parameters (*, P< 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001)

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