Agriculture and the promotion of insect pests: rice cultivation in river floodplains and malaria vectors in The Gambia

Table 5 Multiple variable analyses: factors associated with anopheline adult emergence.

Variable		An. gambiae s.l.
	Wald	Odds Ratio (OR)	95% CIs OR	P
*Spatial measurements*
Distance from landward edge of transect
1–100 m		1.0
200–500 m	4.1	0.23	0.05–0.95	0.042
Position of sampling point within rice field
Edge		1.0
Centre	4.9	0.23	0.06–0.84	0.026
*Biotic measurements*
Height of rice (cm)
	3.4	0.99	0.98–1.00	0.024
Culicine adults
	36.8	2.22	1.72–2.88	<0.001
Insect richness
	3.4	1.78	0.97–3.28	0.065

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