Homage to St. Francis, St. Mark, & St. Genevieve: Mosquito ecology from behavior to communities

Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals?G. Evelyn Hutchinson 1959 American Naturalist 93:145-159

Three Saints

Ecology

The hierarchy of ecology

Mosquitoes

Container-dwelling mosquitoes

Container Aedes

Toxorhynchites rutilus

Behavior and species interactions(Work with Christopher P. Grill)

Predictions

Behavior of mosquito larvae

Predicted competitive ability

Predicted vulnerability to predation

Predation / Competition experiment

Population rate of change

Predation / Competition experiment

Conclusions regarding behavior

Population dynamics (work with Barry W. Alto)

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Logistic population growth

Cage experiment

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Community Ecology

Invasion biology

Aedes aegypti & Aedes albopictus

Decline of Aedes aegypti ( Data from G. O’Meara )

Hypothesis of competitive exclusion

Competition experiment in tires

Aedes aegypti

Aedes albopictus

Conclusions

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Concluding remarks

Acknowledgments