Based on a literature search of 11 online databases using search terms including Aedes aegypti, temperature, diet, larval rearing density, and development rate, we found 27,559 articles, from which 48 journal publications and one book chapter fit the inclusion criteria (Table 1).
Second, spatial autoregressive analyses of childhood mortality, endangered species density, and population growth rate revealed statistical correlations with one or more of the five development factors.
Varying population densities and development patterns in the nation's cities make gaging efficiency difficult.
As plant density and nitrogen rate significantly affect the development of sunflower leaf area, use of the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation intercepted by the canopy (fPARi) was suggested as a synthetic indicator of canopy management.
Temperature increases can also impact development rate and timing of release of microparasites from intermediate hosts, potentially increasing densities and and extending exposure periods for migratory fish (Stocking et al. 2006; Ray et al. 2012; Chiaramonte 2013).
Potential landscape fragmentation and conflicts with other land users depended mainly on development rate, well pad density, existing land-use patterns, and geology.
Larvae develop through discrete developmental stages, where the development rate is affected by density dependence, and larval survival is subject to both stage-dependent mortality and density-dependence.
While diet and density may greatly impact other developmental phenotypes, these results suggest that for development rate these factors should never be considered to the exclusion of temperature.
Comparisons of diet level with development rate are shown in Figure 4, panels A and C. The larval rearing density considered across the studies ranged from 0.01 larvae/mL to 8 larvae/mL, and comparisons with development rate are shown in Figure 4, panels B and D. Approximately 69% of larval rearing density levels used by studies in the meta-analysis fell between 0.1 larva/mL and 1 larva/mL.
The results of both meta-analytic approaches suggest that temperature is the main fixed factor driving development rate, to the exclusion of other factors of known importance such as diet and density.
During the dynamic phase of plaque development (young cohort) a distinct correlation between plaque density and plaque formation rate was observed.
