From: Identifying the most productive breeding sites for malaria mosquitoes in The Gambia
 | Water temperature (°C) | Conductivity (μS/cm) | Turbidity (NTU) | Chironomida/m2/week | Odonata & Coleoptera/m2/week | Diversity Index | Frequency of algae present in habitat (%) |
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Pools | 33.2 (31.1–35.5)c | 323 (227–874)a | 204 (97–310)a,b | 166 (125–212)a,b | 1.18 (0.99–1.38)a | 0.5 (0.44–0.56)a | 69.9 |
Rice close to upland | 28.9 (25.8–32.0)a,b | 3138 (1990–4286)b | 316 (133–500)a | 334 (231–439)a | 1.11 (0.90–1.32)a | 0.36 (0.31–0.42)b | 61.6 |
Rice far from upland | 30.0 (28.0–32.0)b,c | 2502 (915–4088)a,b | 206 (108–305)a,b | 58 (38–79)c | 0.32 (0.21–0.44)b | 0.40 (0.35–0.44)a,b | 18.5 |
Edge floodwater | 27.6 (25.9–29.4)a,b | 2064 (1608–2519)a,b | 76 (40–111)b | 105 (75–134)b,c | 0.31 (0.20–0.41)b | 0.32 (0.28–0.35)b | 21.7 |
River floodwater | 28.7 (27.1–30.3)a,b | 1472 (926–2019)a,b | 72 (38–105)b | 59 (46–70)c | 0.21 (0.09–0.32)b | 0.35 (0.31–0.38)b | 10.9 |
Stream fringes | 25.7 (23.8–27.5)a | 7199 (5618–8778)c | 102 (59–144)b | 149 (117–181)a,b | 0.41 (0.31–0.51)b | 0.33 (0.29–0.37)b | 47.4 |
ANOVA/χ2 | F(2,125) = 6.672, p < 0.001 | F(5,119) = 20.65, p < 0.001 | F(5,103) = 4.627, p = 0.001 | F(5,709) = 12.735, p < 0.001 | F(5,709) = 35.205, p < 0.001 | F(5,709) = 8.090, p < 0.001 | χ2 = 151.1, df = 5, p < 0.001 |