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Matching land cover and tsetse habitat

Year of publication 2013

Pages 1

Author Giuliano Checchi, Raffaele C. Mattioli, Jan Slingebergh and Stephane de la Rocque;Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Document

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Synopsis (short abstract) The present study explores the relationship between tsetse vegetation types and standardized land cover datasets, produced in compliance with the Land Cover Classification System (LCCS). The analysis at continental level uses coarse resolution datasets (1-5 km) to explore the broad patterns of the association between tsetse fly and land cover. At a higher resolution, the customization of national maps of land cover of eight tsetse infested East African countries (FAO - Africover) provides va luable input to support the planning and implementation of trypanosomiasis control interventions.

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