Oviposition ecology and species composition of Aedes spp. and Aedes aegypti dynamics in variously urbanized settings in arbovirus foci in southeastern Côte d’Ivoire

Table 2 Species richness, diversity and dominance of Aedes spp. in the rural, suburban and urban areas and ecozones in southeastern Côte d’Ivoire

Area/ Ecozone	Richness	Shannon’s diversity index	Simpson’s dominance index
Area
Rural	8^a	1.39^a	0.55^b
Suburban	3^b	0.57^a,b	0.79^a,b
Urban	1^b	0^b	1^a
Ecozone
Sylvatic¹	5^a,b	1.90^a	0.28^c
Peridomestic¹	7^a,b	1.23^a,b	0.58^b,c
Domestic¹	5^b,c	0.75^a,b,c	0.77^a,b,c
Peridomestic²	3^b,c	0.67^a,b,c	0.74^a,b,c
Domestic²	3^b,c	0.35^a,b,c	0.89^a,b,c
Peridomestic³	1^c	0^c	1^a
Domestic³	1^c	0^c	1^a

Letters indicate the results of one-way ANOVA test followed by Bonferroni correction (richness) and Kruskal-Wallis test (Shannon diversity index, Simpson dominance index). Groups that do not share the same letter are significantly different (P < 0.05)
¹Ecozone in the rural area
²Ecozone in the suburban area
³Ecozone in the urban area

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