DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908146
title: Investigating the impact of human settlements upon the availability of larval habitats and Aedes albopictus population

description: <b>Description: </b>This experiment analysed the impact of human settlements upon Aedes albopictus populations. Surveys were conducted in natural environments (twice-logged forest) and human settlements in oil palm and logged forest. At each study site, three surveys were conducted: <br><br>1) Aquatic Habitat Survey: within the study area, all bodies of water were analysed for abiotic characteristics – container type, water volume, air temperature, water temperature, canopy cover and turbidity. <br>2) Larval Survey: for each body of water, the number of and stage of larvae/pupae was recorded. Larvae/pupae were extracted from the water, reared to adults and Ae. albopictus were identified. <br>3) Adult Population Survey: human landing catches were conducted to collect Ae. albopictus adults. Abundance and sex ratio was recorded for each location, and the wing span of each individual was taken. <b>Project: </b>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <b>Investigating the impact of human settlements upon the availability of larval habitats and Aedes albopictus populations</b><b>Funding: </b>These data were collected as part of research funded by: SAFE - Tropical Forest Ecology Masters (Studentship)This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs.<b>Permits: </b>These data were collected under permit from the following authorities:Sabah Biodiversity Centre (Research licence JKM/MBS.1000-2/2 JDL.8 (59))Medical Research & Ethics Committee (Ethics licence NMRR-17-3242-39250 (IIR))<b>XML metadata: </b>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here<b>Files: </b>This dataset consists of 4 files: M_Vollans_Larval_Habitats_19v2.xlsx, Larval_Adult_ID.zip, HLC_Wing_Length.zip, Larval_Habitat_Photos.zip<b>M_Vollans_Larval_Habitats_19v2.xlsx</b>This file contains dataset metadata and 4 data tables:<b>Aquatic Habitat Survey</b> (described in worksheet AquaticHabitatSurvey)Description: AquaticHabitatSurveyNumber of fields: 30Number of data rows: 89Fields: <b>Date</b>: Date of survey (Field type: date)<b>Land_Type</b>: Details of Land-Type (Field type: categorical)<b>Location</b>: Details of location. OP = Oil Palm, LF = Logged Forest (Field type: categorical)<b>Replicate</b>: Details location, as named in location sheet. To 'replicate' resolution. (Field type: location)<b>Number_10m^2_Square</b>: Number 10m^2 surveyed (Field type: replicate)<b>Sampling_Region</b>: Details of 10m^2 the aquatic habitat corresponds to: in human settlements, this is the type of building, and in natural environments, the compass direction of the square from the second order point (N/S/E/W). (Field type: replicate)<b>Elevation</b>: Elevation from GPS (Field type: numeric)<b>GPS_file_name</b>: File name saved on GPS (Field type: id)<b>Access_Available</b>: Record of whether able to access the aquatic habitat (Field type: categorical)<b>Comments</b>: General comments on aquatic habitat (Field type: comments)<b>Canopy_cover</b>: Record of canopy cover. NA where inside. Data incomplete. (Field type: numeric)<b>Inside/Outside</b>: Record of whether the aquatic habitat is inside or outside (NA for natural land types, where all larval habitats are outside). (Field type: categorical)<b>Water_Turbidity</b>: Water turbidity, subjective categorization by a consistant surveyer. (Field type: categorical)<b>Water_Temperature</b>: Temperature of the water in the aquatic habitat. NOTE: potential faulty equipment. This data was not used in analysis. (Field type: numeric)<b>Air_Temperature</b>: Temperature of the air directly above the aquatic habitat. (Field type: numeric)<b>Type_Aquatic_Habitat</b>: Record of the type of aquatic habitat (Field type: categorical)<b>In_Constant_Use</b>: Record of whether the aquatic habitat is in constant use. (Field type: categorical)<b>Water_Volume</b>: Total water volume of the aquatic habitat (Field type: numeric)<b>Radius</b>: Radius of the aquatic habitat (Field type: numeric)<b>Diameter</b>: Diameter of the aquatic habitat (Field type: numeric)<b>Length</b>: Length of the aquatic habitat (Field type: numeric)<b>Width</b>: Width of the aquatic habitat (Field type: numeric)<b>Water_Depth</b>: Depth of the water in the aquatic habitat (Field type: numeric)<b>Larval/Pupal_Presence</b>: Record of whether larvae/ pupae are present in the aquatic habitat. (Field type: categorical)<b>Total_Number_Larvae/Pupae</b>: The total number of larvae / pupae found within an aquatic habitat. (Field type: numeric)<b>1/2_Instar_Larvae_Number</b>: The number of 1st and 2nd instar larvae found within an aquatic habitat. (Field type: numeric)<b>3/4_Instar_Larvae_Number</b>: The number of 3rd and 4th instar larvae found within an aquatic habitat. (Field type: numeric)<b>Pupae_Number</b>: The number of pupae found within an aquatic habitat. (Field type: numeric)<b>Further_comments</b>: Further comments on aquatic habitat. (Field type: comments)<b>Photo.folder.name</b>: Folder name containing photos of the study site. (Field type: id)<b>Larva lAdult ID</b> (described in worksheet LarvalAdultID)Description: LarvalAdultIDNumber of fields: 6Number of data rows: 76Fields: <b>Date_of_ID</b>: Date of survey (Field type: date)<b>Ae.albopictus</b>: Record of whether adults are Ae. albopictus, or some other member of the Culicidae (Field type: taxa)<b>Location</b>: Details of location. (Field type: location)<b>Wing_length</b>: Measurement of wing length. (Field type: numeric trait)<b>Photo_folder_ID</b>: Folder name containing photos for adult ID and wing length. (Field type: id)<b>Comments</b>: General comments about identification / wingspan measurement. (Field type: comments)<b>HLC overview</b> (described in worksheet HLCoverview)Description: HLCoverviewNumber of fields: 8Number of data rows: 16Fields: <b>Date</b>: Date of survey (Field type: date)<b>Location</b>: Broad location of where HLC occurred. (Field type: location)<b>Comments</b>: Qualitative details about exact location. (Field type: comments)<b>Ae.albopictus</b>: Number of Ae. albopictus obtained during a single 1.5 hour sample. (Field type: abundance)<b>Number_of_males</b>: Number of Ae. albopictus males (Field type: numeric)<b>Sex_Ratio_(M/Total)</b>: Sex Ratio (number of males / total number) (Field type: numeric)<b>Survey_complete</b>: Record if it was possible to complete the HLC survey. (Field type: categorical)<b>Further_comments</b>: Further comments (Field type: comments)<b>HLC adult ID</b> (described in worksheet HLCadultID)Description: HLCadultIDNumber of fields: 8Number of data rows: 111Fields: <b>Date</b>: Date of sampling (Field type: date)<b>Location</b>: Broad location of where HLC occurred. (Field type: location)<b>Specific_Location</b>: Qualitative details about exact location. (Field type: comments)<b>Sex</b>: Sex (Field type: categorical)<b>Wing Length</b>: Wing length measurement (Field type: numeric trait)<b>Weather</b>: Weather description (Field type: categorical)<b>Comments</b>: Comments on wing dissection issues. (Field type: comments)<b>Photo_Code</b>: Folder name containing wing length photos. (Field type: id)<b>Larval_Adult_ID.zip</b>Description: Zip file containing JPEG images to ID adult mosquitoes reared from collected larvae. <b>HLC_Wing_Length.zip</b>Description: Zip file containing JPEG images of the wingspan of adult mosquitoes collected via HLC. <b>Larval_Habitat_Photos.zip</b>Description: Zip file containing photos of some of the larval habitats encountered, and some general landscapes. <b>Date range: </b>2019-04-03 to 2019-05-06<b>Latitudinal extent: </b>4.5000 to 5.0700<b>Longitudinal extent: </b>116.7500 to 117.8200<b>Taxonomic coverage: </b><br> All taxon names are validated against the GBIF backbone taxonomy. If a dataset uses a synonym, the accepted usage is shown followed by the dataset usage in brackets. Taxa that cannot be validated, including new species and other unknown taxa, morphospecies, functional groups and taxonomic levels not used in the GBIF backbone are shown in square brackets. - Animalia <br> - - Arthropoda <br> - - - Insecta <br> - - - - Diptera <br> - - - - - Culicidae <br> - - - - - - <i>Aedes</i> <br> - - - - - - - <i>Aedes albopictus</i> <br>