| mosquito communities and avian malaria prevalence in silvereyes (zosterops lateralis) within forest edge and interior habitats in a new zealand regional park. | forest fragmentation and agricultural development are important anthropogenic landscape alterations affecting the disease dynamics of malarial parasites (plasmodium spp.), largely through their effects on vector communities. we compared vector abundance and species composition at two forest edge sites abutting pastureland and two forest interior sites in new zealand, while simultaneously assessing avian malaria prevalence in silvereyes (zosterops lateralis). twenty-two of 240 (9.2%) individual s ... | 2015 | 26065670 |