Special Session 82: 

Stochastic modelling for population of culex mosquitoes with temperature

Bing Hu
York University
Canada
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Abstract:
The impact of climate change on mosquito distribution and human health have attracted much attention in recent years and it is widely expected to significantly affect the spread, intensity and distribution of mosquito-borne diseases. Linking global and regional climate models with mathematical models of mosquito population dynamics provides a valuable tool towards improving and quantifying our understanding of how future climate change may affect the distribution of vector mosquito population. In this talk I will focus on using stochastic methods to model the dynamics of mosquito population with stochastic climatic factors. I will present some basic properties of the stochastic models and simulations to explore the variations of mosquito population under different weather patterns.