TY - JOUR AU - Rigot, Thibaud AU - Conte, Annamaria AU - Goffredo, Maria AU - Ducheyne, Els AU - Hendrickx, Guy AU - Gilbert, Marius PY - 2012 DA - 2012/11/22 TI - Predicting the spatio-temporal distribution of Culicoides imicola in Sardinia using a discrete-time population model JO - Parasites & Vectors SP - 270 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - Culicoides imicola KIEFFER, 1913 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) is the principal vector of Bluetongue disease in the Mediterranean basin, Africa and Asia. Previous studies have identified a range of eco-climatic variables associated with the distribution of C. imicola, and these relationships have been used to predict the large-scale distribution of the vector. However, these studies are not temporally-explicit and can not be used to predict the seasonality in C. imicola abundances. Between 2001 and 2006, longitudinal entomological surveillance was carried out throughout Italy, and provided a comprehensive spatio-temporal dataset of C. imicola catches in Onderstepoort-type black-light traps, in particular in Sardinia where the species is considered endemic. SN - 1756-3305 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-270 DO - 10.1186/1756-3305-5-270 ID - Rigot2012 ER -