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DOI	10.1007/s10661-021-09011-3
	Meteorological patterns and the evolution of West Nile virus in an environmentally stressed Mediterranean area
	Mavrakis, Anastasios; Papavasileiou, Christina; Alexakis, Dimitrios; Papakitsos, Evangelos C.; Salvati, Luca
通讯作者	Papakitsos, EC (corresponding author), Univ West Attica, Dept Ind Design & Prod Engn, 250 Thivon Ave, GR-12244 Egaleo, Greece.
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
ISSN	0167-6369
EISSN	1573-2959
出版年	2021
卷号	193 期号:4
英文摘要	The present work investigates the increase of confirmed cases of West Nile virus and the relationship between weather-related patterns and the geographical expansion of West Nile virus in Greece, with a special focus on West Attica, Central Greece, a semi-arid, ecologically fragile Mediterranean area. Using data from the European Environment Agency, European Drought Observatory of Joint Research Centre, the pairwise relationship between surface air temperature anomalies, precipitation anomalies, soil moisture index anomalies, and the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation anomalies (fAPAR) was evaluated during summer time of 2018, a particularly intense virus outbreak. The empirical results of this study indicate that total precipitation during 2018 was extremely high, nearly 500% above the average. These conditions contributed to the increase of soil moisture index anomaly and fAPAR, creating an ideal microenvironment (wet soils and green pastures) for mosquito breeding. This phenomenon was directly associated with a drastic outbreak of West Nile virus cases in the area, compared with earlier years. Our results indicate how unusually high values of summer precipitation may have contributed (both through direct and indirect ecological channels) to the rapid spread of the West Nile virus in West Attica, causing a significant number of confirmed cases and fatalities. Climate change may bring forth other issues aside from natural disasters, including-but not limited to-virus expansion.
英文关键词	West Nile virus Weather anomalies Environmental indicators Biohazard Greece
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Bronze, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000634824500002
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/368905
作者单位	[Mavrakis, Anastasios] Greek Minist Educ, West Attica Secondary Educ Directorate, I Dragoumi 24 Str, GR-19200 Elefsis Attica, Greece; [Mavrakis, Anastasios; Alexakis, Dimitrios; Papakitsos, Evangelos C.] Univ West Attica, Dept Civil Engn, Lab Geoenvironm Sci & Environm Qual Assurance, 250 Thivon & P Ralli Str, GR-12244 Athens, Greece; [Papavasileiou, Christina] Natl & Kapodistrian Univ Athens, Environm Disaster & Crisis Management Strategies, Univ Campus, GR-15784 Athens, Greece; [Salvati, Luca] Univ Macerata, Dept Econ & Law, GR-14234 Nea Ionia Attica, Greece; [Papavasileiou, Christina] Greek Minist Educ, Athens 2nd Directorate Secondary Educ, Pappa E & Filellinon Str, GR-14234 Nea Ionia Attica, Greece; [Papakitsos, Evangelos C.] Univ West Attica, Dept Ind Design & Prod Engn, 250 Thivon Ave, GR-12244 Egaleo, Greece; [Salvati, Luca] Univ Macerata, Dept Econ & Law, Via Armaroli 43, I-62100 Macerata, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mavrakis, Anastasios,Papavasileiou, Christina,Alexakis, Dimitrios,et al. Meteorological patterns and the evolution of West Nile virus in an environmentally stressed Mediterranean area[J],2021,193(4).
APA	Mavrakis, Anastasios,Papavasileiou, Christina,Alexakis, Dimitrios,Papakitsos, Evangelos C.,&Salvati, Luca.(2021).Meteorological patterns and the evolution of West Nile virus in an environmentally stressed Mediterranean area.ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT,193(4).
MLA	Mavrakis, Anastasios,et al."Meteorological patterns and the evolution of West Nile virus in an environmentally stressed Mediterranean area".ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 193.4(2021).