Abiotic and biotic factors associated with the presence of Anopheles arabiensis immatures and their abundance in naturally occurring and man-made aquatic habitats

Table 3 Results of test statistics showing relationships between Anopheles arabiensis and Culex neavei larval densities and key environmental and physicochemical parameters

Dependent variable	Site	Explanatory Variables	Correlation	Constant	p-value
An. arabiensis larval density	BP	Cypris sp.	0.10	0.131	0.014
	SB	Water depth	−0.25	0.30	0.007
		Conductivity	0.14	0.31	0.011
		Rainfall	−0.04	0.30	0.019
		Cypris sp.	0.09	0.16	0.005
		Hydrophilus sp.	0.22	0.16	0.036
Culex neavei larval density	SB	Water depth	−3.91	5.00	0.001
Culex neavei larval density	SB	Dragonflies	−1.38	1.15	0.036

BP Bras Panon, SB Saint Benoît, All variables included in the GLMs were considered on log-scale (Log10 [n +1]).

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