title: [Aedes albopictus seasonality in a protected area in the city of São Paulo, Brazil].
abstract: The study had the objective of assessing the seasonality of Aedes albopictus and the impact of environmental factors on breeding sites in a protected urban area. Immature individuals were collected through fluid aspiration from nine tree holes, in the Ecological Park of Tietê in the city of São Paulo, Southern Brazil, from 2001 to 2002. The index of positivity and number of individuals results were as follows: positivity x precipitation (rho=0.69, p<0.001), positivity x temperature (rho=0.35, p<0.001), number of individuals x precipitation (rho=0.29, p<0.001) and number of individuals x temperature (rho=0.13, p<0.05). These correlations suggest rainfalls had greater impact than temperature.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. urbinati@usp.br
authors.forename: Paulo Roberto
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Urbinatti
authors.forename: Regiane Maria Tironi de
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.forename: Delsio
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Natal
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D018504:Ecological Systems, Closed; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000502:physiology*; D024301:Plant Bark; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012621:Seasons; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric