J. K. Blackburn

Household and climate factors influence Aedes aegypti risk in the arid city of Huaquillas, Ecuador

This study identifies household and climate factors influencing Aedes aegypti presence in Huaquillas, Ecuador, finding that longer residency, higher occupancy, female-headed households, and unreliable water supply increase risk, while septic systems reduce it.

Ecological niche modeling the potential geographic distribution of four Culicoides species of veterinary significance in Florida

This paper uses ecological niche modeling to predict the geographic distribution of four Culicoides species in Florida and identifies key environmental predictors of their presence.

A cross-validation-based approach for delimiting reliable home range estimates

The paper introduces a cross-validation method to improve parameter selection for the T-LoCoH algorithm, leading to more objective and accurate home range estimates.

An efficient extension of N-mixture models for multi-species abundance estimation

This paper extends N-mixture models to improve rare species abundance estimation in low-sample-size tropical studies by leveraging multi-species information and beta-distributed detection probabilities.