Urban malaria is becoming a major health priority across Africa. A study was undertaken to assess the importance of urban pollution and agriculture practice on the distribution and susceptibility to insecticide of malaria vectors in the two main cities in Cameroon.

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The present study, conducted between May 2012 and September 2013, aimed to determine the distribution of groundwater invertebrates in the Bamoun tableland, Cameroon. A total of 216 samples taken fr...

There has been a renewed interest for larviciding during the recent decade. Although biological larvicides are considered not to be harmful to non-target organisms, there is still not sufficient data on the effect of new long-lasting larvicide formulations such as VectoMax G combining Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis and Lysinibacullus sphaericus on the environment especially on non-target organisms. The present study aimed to assess the possible influence of VectoMax G on the diversity and abundance of the aquatic fauna cohabiting with mosquito larvae in breeding habitats during a larviciding trial in the city of Yaoundé.

La composition et la structure du zooplancton de deux lacs du complexe lacustre Ossa (Ossa et Mwembè), site protégé UNESCO situé dans une plaine inondable, ont fait l'objet d'une étude entre septembre 2009 et février 2010. 37 et 41 espèces de zooplancton ont été recensées respectivement dans les lacs Ossa et Mwembè. Les deux milieux, oligotrophes, sont soumis à l'influence du fleuve Sanaga qui leur apporte en temps de crue de nouvelles espèces. La présence de Mesocyclops leuckarti dans ces eaux amène à considérer l'existence de cette espèce sur le continent africain. La densité des organismes zooplanctoniques augmente entre septembre et novembre et chute rapidement en décembre, ce qui s'accorde avec une succession saisonnière des communautés. Les paramètres physico-chimiques, qui permettent de caractériser les plans d'eau comme oligotrophes, ne diffèrent pas significativement entre les deux milieux, ni avec la profondeur de prélèvement, ce qui justifie la valeur de 82 % trouvée pour l'indice de similitude de SÖRENSEN. Quant à la structure des populations de zooplancton, elle est influencée principalement par la saison et par la profondeur de prélèvement, le mois et la station n'ayant pas d'influence sur cette distribution.

One of the major challenges of aquatic ecology is to understand how anthropization affects biodiversity and what the consequences on the functioning of hydrosystems. Physicochemical and zoolanktonic variables studied in two ponds (Mokolo and Mopa) in the city of Bertoua, with two sampling stations (surface and depth) per pond and data collected monthly from March 2016 to April 2017 (14 months) allowed us to appreciate the spatial and seasonal dynamics of zooplankton in relation to anthropogenic disturbances. Abiotic variables of the ponds show that they are highly anthropized with relatively high temperatures (> 23 °C), low water transparency (< 70 cm) despite the shallow depth of the ponds (< 170 cm), average oxygenation (> 50%) with hypoxia (< 35%) recorded in the rainy season, high mineralization of the waters, high levels of nutrients, organic matter and photosynthetic pigments (> 30 µg/L). These characteristics allow to classify these water bodies in the category of hypereutrophic ponds. Biological data show fairly diverse ponds with 63 species identified in Mokolo Pond representing 17.89% of the total abundance. In Mopa Pond, 75 species were identified representing 21.30% of the total abundance. This study allowed us to deduce that the structure and dynamics of microcrustaceans communities are under the control of different processes that interact simultaneously. It is mainly influenced by the season, predation and by the depth of sampling, the month and the station having no influence on this distribution.