Environmental health
Functions of forest
- Evapotranspiration
- Coniferous woods compared to broad leaf deciduous woods have shallower roots which leads to less ability to retain rain falls and land slides
Malaria vectors
| Africa | Asia |
|---|---|
|
| species | distribution | biting preference | resting site | breeding site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anopheles arabiensis | Africa | livestock | outside | small, open water body = more artificial/deforested/reclaimed area where also provides higher water temp. |
| Anopheles gambiae s.s. | human | inside house | ||
| Anopheles funestus | large vegetated water body = more natural area |
