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Involving citizen scientists in monitoring arthropod vectors of human and zoonotic diseases: the case of mosquito alert in Italy

Virgillito, Chiara; Longo, Eleonora; De Marco, Carlo Maria; Serini, Paola; Zucchelli, Maria Vittoria; Montarsi, Fabrizio; Severini, Francesco; Rosà, Roberto; Da Re, Daniele; Filipponi, Federico; Manica, Mattia; Palmer, John R. B.; Bartumeus, Frederic; Della Torre, Alessandra; Caputo, Beniamino (Elsevier, 2024)

Citizen science has been particularly effective in gathering reliable, timely, large-scale data on the presence and distributions of animal species, including mosquito vectors of human and zoonotic pathogens. This involves ...
Intermediary organizations and their role in advancing the SDGs in higher education

Lakhno, Marina; Ortiz Gervasi, Luis (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

Drawing on evidence from documents and semi-structured interviews with members of the Catalan system of higher education, this research explores how intermediary organizations (IOs) facilitate the adoption of the Sustainable ...
Determinants of intended prevention behaviour against mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses in the Netherlands and Spain using the MosquitoWise survey: cross-sectional study

de Best, Pauline A.; Abourashed, Ayat; Doornekamp, Laura; Van Gorp ECM; Timen, Aura; Sikkema, Reina S.; Bartumeus, Frederic; Palmer, John R. B.; Koopmans, Marion P.G. (BioMed Central, 2024)

Background: Recently, Europe has seen an emergence of mosquito-borne viruses (MBVs). Understanding citizens' perceptions of and behaviours towards mosquitoes and MBVs is crucial to reduce disease risk. We investigated and ...
Association between the skin microbiome and MHC class II diversity in an amphibian

Cortázar-Chinarro, Maria; Richter-Boix, Alex; Rödin-Mörch, Patrik; Halvarsson, Peter; Logue, Jürg B.; Laurila, Anssi; Höglund, Jacob (Wiley, 2024)

Microbiomes play an important role in determining the ecology and behaviour of their hosts. However, questions remain pertaining to how host genetics shape microbiomes, and how microbiome composition influences host fitness. ...
Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain

Sánchez-García, Álvaro; Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni; Delgado i Garcia, Maria (Wiley, 2024)

In many European countries, people increasingly leave rural or small municipalities to live and work in urban or metropolitan environments. Although previous work on the 'left behind' places has examined the relationship ...