Abstract
Species distribution modeling (SDM) has become an increasingly common approach to explore questions about ecology, geography, outbreak risk, and global change as they relate to infectious disease vectors. Here, we conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature, screening 563 abstracts and identifying 204 studies that used SDMs to produce distribution estimates for mosquito species. While the number of studies employing SDM methods has increased markedly over the past decade, the overwhelming majority used a single method (maximum entropy modeling; MaxEnt) and focused on human infectious disease vectors or their close relatives. The majority of regional models were developed for areas in Africa and Asia, while more localized modeling efforts were most common for North America and Europe. Findings from this study highlight gaps in taxonomic, geographic, and methodological foci of current SDM literature for mosquitoes that can guide future efforts to study the geography of mosquito-borne disease risk.
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Background
Mosquito-borne diseases have long imposed a heavy burden on both human and animal health worldwide [1]. There is an extensive history of mosquito control efforts to reduce the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases of global public health importance, notably malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever [2,3,4]. However, these efforts are increasingly undermined by the combined effects of climate change, urbanization, and health system erosion, all of which are implicated in the expansion of mosquito-borne diseases to higher latitudes and elevations [3, 5, 6], the re-emergence of diseases like malaria and yellow fever [7,8,9,10], and the emergence of novel pathogens like chikungunya and Zika virus [11,12,13,14]. Despite their public health importance, most of these diseases are undersurveilled and underreported, particularly in areas where poverty overlaps with a growing number of syndemic and syndromically hard-to-distinguish mosquito-borne diseases [15,16,17]. As a result, mapping the geographic distribution of mosquito vectors is often used as a first step towards describing the shifting landscapes of infectious disease risk.
One of the most commonly applied tools to study mosquito geographic distributions is species distribution modeling (SDM), also commonly known as ecological niche modeling. Species distribution models relate presence-absence or presence-only occurrence data to explanatory landscape factors, producing estimates of suitable habitat [18, 19]. Inputs for SDMs typically include geolocated data on the presence of the species of interest as the response variable, often in the form of occurrence records derived from literature reviews, databases, or aggregated abundance sampling [18]. Explanatory variables are extracted from a wide range of sources, and ideally represent aspects of the species’ ecology that impact whether the organism can persist in a particular environment. Researchers often consider climatological factors, as well as place and organism-specific factors such as land cover, slope, aspect, elevation, soil type, and human effects on the landscape [20,21,22].
Given the flexibility of the approach, the motivations and objectives for developing SDMs of mosquito species often vary alongside model inputs, methods, and spatial scope. For example, global, regional, or national-scale SDMs may aim to anticipate broad distributions of present or future disease risk [23,24,25], while models developed at a finer spatial scale play an increasingly important role in vector control strategies. Public health vector control and mosquito source reduction are cornerstones of disease management, curbing transmission when clinical treatment and prophylactic options are limited or non-existent, as is currently the case for many arboviruses [26]. Identifying areas at risk from mosquito-borne disease transmission is integral to the development of effective policies, formation of mitigation strategies, and allocation of resources [27, 28]; however, vector surveillance activities can be resource intensive and geographically limited [29, 30]. Research-guided mosquito surveillance and abatement efforts are therefore often cited as necessary for practitioners to precisely know not only when, but also where to both monitor and intervene [31,32,33,34,35,36,37].
Here, we undertake a systematic review of the current body of literature on mosquito SDM research, motivated by the desire to understand these different applications, and to identify trends, challenges, and gaps in the current body of knowledge generated around mosquito ecology and biogeography. We followed the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines to identify and compile studies that developed SDMs of mosquito species in the past 20 years, and extracted information on the species, methods, input variables, and location and scale of each relevant published, peer-reviewed study [38].
Methods
We conducted literature searches following PRISMA statement guidelines, a checklist of criteria to ensure transparency in systematic reviews [38, 39]. We conducted searches across all Web of Science databases through January 2023 to identify studies using SDMs to estimate mosquito geographic distributions. Combinations of key terms used in searches included “Aedes,” “Culex,” “Anopheles,” and “mosquito” with “species distribution model*” and “ecological niche model*.” We included Aedes, Anopheles and Culex as explicit search terms, as these genera comprise the disease vectors most targeted in public health initiatives, and are intensely studied as disease vectors [40,41,42]. The inclusion of “mosquito” as a search term was to ensure that we captured studies on species beyond these three taxonomic groupings, and we did not restrict our searches to species implicated in human disease transmission. While there were no restrictions on the geographic region of study or date of publication, searches were limited to English language results.
Duplicate records were removed from our search results before screening. We screened the remaining abstracts for subject relevance (i.e., studies on mosquitoes), additionally removing publications that were literature reviews, expert commentaries, synthesis papers, phylogenetic studies, or gray literature. The remaining studies were reviewed in full for inclusion, excluding studies with methodologies that were not within the scope of this review, including papers that were purely descriptive, used mosquito-borne disease cases as response variables, or modeled mosquito presence, abundance, or behaviors (e.g., such as oviposition or bite rates) using data with no geospatial component.
We extracted information from the full text of the remaining studies, which included information on publication (e.g., digital object identifier link), the mosquito species of interest as identified in the studies, SDM methods used, geographic location of study, spatial scale of analysis, and data sources for both species occurrence records and explanatory environmental variables. We noted methods used for model fitting, addressing collinearity, and if modeled distributions were projected beyond their initial training scope (e.g., models projected to other geographic locations, or future time horizons) when available. The methods used in the studies were classified into nine categories, which are outlined in Table 1.
Data extracted from the final collection of screened literature were synthesized to describe trends in mosquito SDMs. Data visualization was conducted in R (v4.1.2.) using code adapted from Lippi et al. [43], and mapping was performed in ArcMap (v10.8.1). The database of screened literature is available on GitHub (https://github.com/RyanLab/MOSQ_SDM_Table).
Results
The initial search returned 1185 records (Fig. 1), and 563 records remained after duplicates were removed. In initial abstract screening, 298 records for studies that did not fit the scope of this review were removed. After reviewing the full text of the remaining 265 records, we retained 204 studies that met our criteria for inclusion (https://github.com/RyanLab/MOSQ_SDM_Table).
Flow diagram of the systematic review process, indicating combinations of search terms and number of studies screened
Taxonomic focus of SDMs
There were 138 mosquito species featured in SDMs produced in the reviewed literature, which included 78 species in Anopheles, 25 species in Culex, 24 species in Aedes (= Ochlerotatus), and 11 species in other genera, including Coquillettidia, Culiseta, Haemagogus, and Sabethes. By species, most SDM studies developed models for Aedes aegypti (n = 55), Aedes albopictus (n = 50), Culex pipiens (n = 20), Anopheles gambiae (n = 17), and Anopheles arabiensis (n = 15) (Fig. 2).
Top 10 mosquito species, within each genus, that have been studied with species distribution models (SDMs). Most efforts focused on Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, followed by Culex pipiens, though collectively species in the genus Anopheles were also extensively modeled. Cs. Culiseta, Cq. Coquillettidia, Hg. Haemagogus, Ps. Psorophora, Sa. Sabethes, Ur. Uranotaenia
Grouping by genera, mosquitoes featured in SDM studies have changed over time (Fig. 3a).
Cumulative number of studies on mosquitoes that modeled a given mosquito genus (a), and the SDM methods used in studies over time (b). CTA Classification tree analysis, MaxEnt maximum entropy, GARP genetic algorithm for rule-set production
The early mosquito SDM literature predominantly focused on mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles, comprising 64.3% of studies published through 2010. In recent years, studies on Aedes mosquitoes have become more prevalent, and these mosquitoes were the taxonomic focus of nearly half (48.6%) of all mosquito SDMs produced since 2015. In the same period, roughly a quarter of studies were on mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles (24.0%), and 11.6% on mosquitoes in the genus Culex.
Methods used to build SDMs
Overall, 169 of the 204 studies reviewed (82.8%) used a single method to estimate mosquito distributions, while the remaining 35 (17.2%) used more than one method or used model ensemble approaches (Fig. 3b). More than half (n = 108, 52.9%) of the studies used MaxEnt exclusively, a trend which also holds across genera (Fig. 4). An additional 21 (10.3%) used MaxEnt with one or more additional SDM methods. Non-machine learning regression models (e.g., logistic regression, generalized linear models, etc.) were used exclusively in 18 studies (8.8%), and used in combination with other methods in an additional 16 studies (7.8%). CTA methods, which included classification and regression trees, boosted regression trees, and random forest, were used as the sole SDM method in 14 studies (6.9%), and the genetic algorithm for rule set prediction (GARP) was the sole method in 12 studies (5.9%). CTA methods were combined with other SDMs in 18 additional studies (8.8%), while GARP was used with other methods in five additional studies (2.5%). Mechanistic models were used as the only SDM method in three studies (1.5%), and bioclimatic envelope models were used in five studies (2.5%). Thirteen studies (6.4%), which were characterized as “Other,” featured uncommon methods such as ecological niche factor analysis, and other types of environmental suitability or logic thresholds.
Breakdowns of methods used, shown by taxonomic groups for Aedes (a), Anopheles (b), Culex (c), and studies that estimated distributions for multiple genera (d). For abbreviations, see Fig. 3
The frequency of using SDMs to estimate mosquito distributions increased markedly over time, particularly from 2015 onward (Fig. 3b). Concurrently, the evolution of SDM algorithms led to a more diverse methodological landscape. In the early 2000s, GARP was the most commonly implemented method among these studies, and remained a frequently used method until approximately 2010. MaxEnt software was released in 2006, and the first mosquito SDM study using MaxEnt was published shortly thereafter, in 2007. By 2011, it was the most common SDM approach, with 19 of 43 studies (44.2%) published during those years solely using MaxEnt. More than half (62.3%) of the mosquito SDM studies published since 2015 solely used MaxEnt to estimate mosquito distributions. To a lesser extent, the frequency of using multiple SDM approaches in a single study [“Mixed” (Figs. 3, 4)] has also increased over time. The first mixed methods study based on our inclusion criteria was published in 2008, and studies that used multiple SDM approaches have accounted for 13.7% of those published since 2015. CTAs and regression methods have seen modest increases in use over the past decade, and were used in 8.2% and 6.2% of studies, respectively, since 2015. The increased availability of gridded data layers of ecological and climate products, representing a host of environmental factors, has also been a fundamental piece in the rapid expansion of SDM research. A notable example is the WorldClim database, which was first released in 2005 (with version 2 released in 2017) and made long-term averages of historical and projected future climate data accessible for many SDM studies [44].
Spatial scale of SDMs
The scale of analysis varied considerably throughout the mosquito SDM literature. The majority of studies were conducted at the sub-national (34.8%) or national (31.4%) level. Most national or sub-national studies were conducted in the USA (11.1%), followed by Germany (6.7%), Mexico (6.7%), Australia (5.2%), Brazil (4.4%), China (4.4%), Colombia (4.4%), Italy (4.4%), Argentina (3.7%), Iran (3.7%), and Tanzania (3.7%) (Fig. 5). Approximately one-quarter of studies (24.5%) were regional, projecting models over large geographic areas that encompassed multiple countries. Most of the regional models were developed for portions of Africa (30.0%) and Europe (30.0%), followed by SDMs developed for regions in Asia (24.0%), North America (16.0%), and South America (16.0%). Nearly half of all regional models (44.0%) were developed for species of Anopheles. Relatively few SDMs (9.3%) focused on a global extent, but of those, the majority (68.4%) focused on mosquitoes in the genus Aedes (Fig. 6A). Studies conducted in African countries typically modeled the distributions of Anopheles, while European studies tended to focus on Aedes. In comparison, studies conducted in North America, South America, the Middle East, and countries in Asia more frequently included multiple species, or other taxonomic groups (Fig. 5).
Map representing the number of SDM studies conducted at the national or sub-national level (country, greyscale) and the mosquito genera modeled in the studies (pie chart, color breakdown)
The proportion of spatial scales represented in the reviewed SDM studies, shown by genera for Aedes (a), Anopheles (b), Culex (c), and multiple genera (d)
The scale of analysis used to build SDMs also varied by taxa. Species distribution models were built for Aedes mosquitoes in roughly equivalent proportions (Fig. 6a), possibly driven by the global invasions of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus. In contrast, global suitability models for Anopheles and Culex were relatively uncommon (Fig. 6b, c), regional and sub-national models were most common for Anopheles (Fig. 6b), and SDMs for Culex and multiple genera primarily consisted of national and sub-national models (Fig. 6c, d).
Data sources used to build SDMs
Mosquito occurrence records used as data inputs for SDM workflows were obtained from a variety of sources. Over one-third of the reviewed studies (36.8%) included georeferenced locations from online data repositories when building models, the majority of which (49.3%) used the Global Bioinformatics Information Facility to obtain data. Georeferenced data obtained from published sources and literature reviews were also frequently used as data inputs in studies (36.8%), with the database published by Kraemer et al. [45] explicitly cited as a data source in 5.4% of all studies. Use of existing public health surveillance systems for mosquito records, which included databases from national public health authorities, was indicated in 11.8% of studies.
Collection of novel mosquito records through entomological sampling was indicated in approximately one-third (32.2%) of published studies, of which 16.1% supplemented collection records with data from other sources (e.g., published data, online repositories, etc.). Of the studies that collected entomological data, 59.3% reported larval sampling, of which 18.8% reported sampling with oviposition or gravid traps. Diverse sampling methods were reported in studies with entomological data that targeted the adult life stage, including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention light traps (37.8%), BG-Sentinel traps (22.2%), Mosquito Magnet traps (15.6%), aspiration (13.3%), and human landing catch (11.1%). While studies that included a field component typically described the mosquito life stage targeted in sampling, across all studies the life stage of mosquitoes used for species presence (i.e., adults, immatures, or both) was not specified in most instances (53.9%).
Environmental predictors of mosquito presence
Most studies (89.7%) incorporated climate variables to estimate mosquito distributions. While some studies (20.1%) used climate data exclusively, many (69.6%) used a combination of climate data and other environmental covariates (e.g., land cover class, elevation, soil classifications, etc.) in their model predictions. Most studies (69.2%) that used climate data to produce SDMs employed WorldClim data products. Many studies (27.9%) projected models to estimate mosquito distributions under future climate conditions, using products such as downscaled global climate models as environmental predictors. A variety of methods were used to control for collinearity in environmental predictors before building SDMs, including use of correlation coefficients with a threshold (27.5%), principal component analysis (8.3%), and variance inflation factor (5.9%). Nearly half of the studies (48.5%) did not explicitly address predictor collinearity.
Variables identified as important for predicting mosquito distributions were reported in 80.3% of studies. Identified drivers varied considerably between studies and taxa. Measures of temperature were most often described as important predictors of mosquitoes (54.9% of studies), followed by precipitation (42.6%), land cover and land use (31.4%), and elevation (18.6%). Of the studies that incorporated climate variables, 62.6% identified temperature, and 52.5% identified precipitation as important predictors of mosquito habitat suitability. By taxonomic group, temperature variables were top predictors in 44 (50.0%) studies on Aedes, 37 (58.7%) studies on Anopheles, and 16 (69.6%) studies on Culex. Precipitation variables were top predictors in 32 (36.4%) studies on Aedes, 36 (57.1%) studies on Anopheles, and 12 (52.2%) studies on Culex. Variable importance was not reported in 19.6% of studies.
Discussion
SDM has become a frequently used methodological approach to estimate the distribution, and implicit risk, of vector-borne diseases [35, 36]. In this study, we conducted a systematic review of scientific literature that used SDMs to estimate geographic distributions of mosquitoes. By quantifying data from the screened literature to identify patterns and trends, we were able to summarize the methods, taxonomic foci, geographic scope, and other attributes reported in SDM studies. Importantly, this also enabled us to identify potential gaps in the current literature, and thus provide guidance for future modeling efforts.
Current trends in mosquito SDMs
Although there is diversity in the landscape of available modeling approaches and tools, MaxEnt is the most commonly implemented method for conducting SDM studies on mosquitoes [46]. After its release in 2006, MaxEnt quickly gained favor over previously common methods, like GARP, and remains the most frequently used approach for the estimation of mosquito distributions [47]. While MaxEnt may be the most appropriate methodology for some studies, the popularity of the method also results from an interpretable graphic user interface, prolific training guides, and general ease of implementation for users. Further, the release of WorldClim climate model output data in 2005, and the subsequent availability of other gridded environmental data products, allowed users to perform analyses without collecting primary environmental data, facilitating the use of SDMs [48].
The majority of the SDM studies in this review were on Anopheles or Aedes. This is not surprising, given the emphasis on the global health importance of malaria transmitted by mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles, and arboviral pathogens transmitted by some species in the genus Aedes, including yellow fever virus and dengue virus. Moreover, most global modeling efforts involve mosquitoes in the genus Aedes, likely owing not only to the medical importance of two key species (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus), but also to their cosmopolitan success as invasive species. In contrast, SDMs for Anopheles were typically conducted at regional, national, and local scales, and in locations predominantly on the African continent, reflecting the disproportionate research effort focused on malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum.
Geographic gaps exist for central Asia, Southeast Asia, eastern Europe, and portions of Africa and South America, where few highly localized studies have been conducted. Notably, many of these regions have rich mosquito diversity, including dozens of understudied vectors of current or potential future emerging infections [49]. Modeling studies in these regions were also underdeveloped in respect to other methodological aspects; for example, temperature and precipitation in these regions were most commonly represented by WorldClim bioclimatic variables rather than regionally developed climate products. Regionally targeted research efforts may benefit from locally created and locally validated climate and land cover products.
Challenges of SDMs
We found considerable variation in which environmental drivers were identified as predictive of mosquito distributions, such that few generalizations could be made even for a given species. Variable importance is influenced by nearly every step of the SDM building process, such as choice of data products, scale of analysis, collinearity reduction techniques, and choice of SDM algorithm. In studies that reported variable importance, actual values of environmental predictors (i.e., numerical thresholds for occurrence) were rarely reported. The prevalence of studies that failed to reduce the number of variables to address collinearity, or lacked justification for choice of environmental predictors, points to a potentially troubling lack of biological grounding and hypothesis testing. These challenges can be readily addressed in future studies through adherence to best practices and standards in building models and reporting results [50,51,52]. Assessing the quality of models and adherence to best practices is beyond the scope of this review but has been recently assessed by Barker and MacIsaac [51]. Given some of these underlying heterogeneities among studies, care must be taken when interpreting the results of SDMs, especially those potentially used for guiding public health decision-making, as basing decisions on the results of poor-quality models can lead to the diversion of resources and miscommunication of the true risk of exposure.
Opportunities for future modeling efforts
Many efforts have been made to delineate the geographic extent of mosquitoes, but the current literature still may not capture the full landscape of risk, especially in the biodiverse areas where new infections are more likely to originate [53, 54]. Moreover, older range maps may not reflect the most current understanding of mosquito taxonomy (e.g., grouping members of a species complex together), and may need reassessment. The movement of vectors and pathogens may also serve as the catalyst for new public health challenges, for example, when mosquito vectors aggressively invade new locations [6, 55], or when the introduction of pathogens increases the medical significance of local mosquito populations [35]. These changes also create a problem for the scientific literature itself: the estimation of range boundaries based on baseline climate conditions has diminishing value in a rapidly warming world, where mosquito ranges have already become non-stationary in both invasive ranges [25] and endemic areas [6].
Conclusions
Our findings indicate an opportunity not only to expand data collection and distribution modeling efforts for underrepresented mosquito species and in underrepresented areas [43, 56] but also to more broadly rethink the SDM workflow as it is currently used in vector surveillance and control. An iterative workflow is technologically feasible and cost-effective, where (1) existing surveillance data and local knowledge are used to generate or update mosquito distribution models; (2) new forecasts are generated that anticipate areas at risk of range expansions, based on existing trends and climate projections; and (3) models are used to guide the collection of new surveillance data, which can also be used for model validation (Fig. 7). Field efforts to collect data used for model improvement can be a daunting endeavor, yet we found a surprisingly high number of studies which collected novel entomological survey data for building models. Nevertheless, relatively few studies incorporated data from public health surveillance systems, highlighting a potential avenue to future collaborations between modelers, public health authorities, and vector control agencies. This new workflow presents opportunities on the technological front, where efforts to employ newer approaches with updated methodologies and software, and adherence to best practices, may enable us to refine estimates of spatial risk; moreover, adoption of automated approaches that update range estimates from incoming data could aid in making timely predictions that are more accessible to decision-makers. Partnerships with local experts and agencies will be key both to improving model predictions and maximizing their applied utility [57]. Ultimately, working more closely with end users may facilitate the uptake of modeling workflows, ensuring that SDMs are appropriately contextualized and regularly updated.
A conceptual workflow for dynamic mosquito species distribution modeling
Availability of data and materials
All of the papers reviewed in this study are included in the References [24, 25, 58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191,192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,202,203,204,205,206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233,234,235,236,237,238,239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255,256,257,258,259]. Data associated with this analysis are available on GitHub (https://github.com/RyanLab/MOSQ_SDM_Table).
Abbreviations
- CTA:
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Classification tree analysis
- GARP:
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Genetic algorithm for rule-set production
- MaxEnt:
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Maximum entropy modeling
- SDM:
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Species distribution model
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CAL and SJR were supported by CIBR: VectorByte: a Global Informatics Platform for studying the Ecology of Vector-Borne Diseases [Division of Biological Infrastructure, National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016265]. SJR and CJC were additionally supported by funding to the Viral Emergence Research Initiative (Verena; viralemergence.org), including NSF BII 2021909 and NSF BII 2213854.
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Lippi, C.A., Mundis, S.J., Sippy, R. et al. Trends in mosquito species distribution modeling: insights for vector surveillance and disease control. Parasites Vectors 16, 302 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-05912-z
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