Volume 11, Issue 29, January - June, 2025

Spatial- temporal statistical analysis of the relationship between climate factors and the biodiversity of Aedes Albopictus Mosquito over Northern Libya

Nawal A Mahfoud¹, Haifa M Ben Miloud², Amel Saad Ashargawi³

¹Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Tripoli, Libya
²Department of Atmospheric Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tripoli, Libya
³Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Tripoli, Libya

ABSTRACT

Climate scientists are looking to build the largest climate models and compile data on the Earth's surface, including the impact of climate factors over time on the biodiversity of the Aedes albopictus Mosquito. In our study, it became clear that there are relationships between the spread of Aedes albopictus Mosquito and different climate factors. A strong inverse relationship was found between mosquitoes and temperature, with a correlation coefficient of -0.76., while the relationship with relative humidity and Precipitation reached 0.533 and 0.518, respectively. When spatially analyzing the Moran’s I and LISA variables, it was found that there are hot spots concentrated in the AL Jabal al Akhdar region and cold spots in Sirt and Mizdah for the significance level P<0.05, and a local Geary analysis identified the dependent and independent places of climate variables and their impact on mosquito numbers and determined the significance level. During 2025-2080, mosquito numbers are decreasing due to rising temperatures according to climate scenarios.

Keywords: Mosquito Aedes albopictus, Temperature, North Libya, relative humidity, Precipitation

Climate Change, 2025, 11(29), e6cc3101

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v11i29.e6cc3101

Published: 09 April 2025