Assessing and correcting neighborhood socioeconomic spatial sampling biases in citizen science mosquito data collection
Por:
Padilla-Pozo, A, Bartumeus, F, Montalvo, T, Sanpera-Calbet, I, Valsecchi, A, Palmer, JRB
Publicada:
28 sep 2024
Resumen:
Climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic factors are facilitating the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, heightening the importance of vector surveillance and control. Citizen science is proving to be an effective tool to track mosquito populations, but methods are needed to detect and account for small scale sampling biases in citizen science surveillance. In this article we combine two types of traditional mosquito surveillance records with data from the Mosquito Alert citizen science system to explore the ways in which the socioeconomic characteristics of urban neighborhoods result in sampling biases in citizen scientists' mosquito reports, while also shaping the spatial distribution of mosquito populations themselves. We use Barcelona, Spain, as an example, and focus on Aedes albopictus, an invasive vector species of concern worldwide. Our results suggest citizen scientists' sampling effort is focused more in Barcelona's lower and middle income census tracts than in its higher income ones, whereas Ae. albopictus populations are concentrated in the city's upper-middle income tracts. High resolution estimates of the spatial distribution of Ae. albopictus risk can be improved by controlling for citizen scientists' sampling effort, making it possible to provide better insights for efficiently targeting control efforts. Our methodology can be replicated in other cities faced with vector mosquitoes to improve public health responses to mosquito-borne diseases, which impose massive burdens on communities worldwide.
Filiaciones:
Padilla-Pozo, A:
Cornell Univ, Dept Sociol, Uris Hall,109 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Cornell Univ, Cornell Populat Ctr, Martha Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
Spanish Natl Res Council, Ctr Estudis Avancats Blanes CEAB CSIC, Carrer Acces Cala St Francesc 14, Blanes 17300, Girona, Spain
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Dept Polit & Social Sci, Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Barcelona 08005, Spain
Bartumeus, F:
Spanish Natl Res Council, Ctr Estudis Avancats Blanes CEAB CSIC, Carrer Acces Cala St Francesc 14, Blanes 17300, Girona, Spain
Passeig Lluis Co, Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats ICREA, Barcelona 08010, Spain
CREAF Ctr Recerca Ecol i Aplicac Forestals, Campus UAB, Edif C, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
Montalvo, T:
Agencia Salut Publ Barcelona, Pl Lesseps 1, Barcelona 08023, Spain
Inst Salud Carlos III, CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, C-Monforte Lemos 3-5,Pabellon 11,Planta 0, Madrid 28029, Spain
Inst Invest Biomed Sant Pau, IIB Sant Pau, Sant Quinti 77-79, Barcelona 08041, Spain
Sanpera-Calbet, I:
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Dept Polit & Social Sci, Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Barcelona 08005, Spain
Valsecchi, A:
Agencia Salut Publ Barcelona, Pl Lesseps 1, Barcelona 08023, Spain
Palmer, JRB:
Univ Pompeu Fabra, Dept Polit & Social Sci, Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Barcelona 08005, Spain
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