The Public Library of Science is set to include Mercer County Mosquito Control Superintendent Ary Farajollahi’s research in a collection about climate change.
PLOS selected an article co-authored by Farajollahi for its collection title The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change.
Farajollahi and three other researchers focused on the Northeastern Range expansion of the Asian tiger mosquito and its impact on public health.
“Mosquito districts can be thought of as climate change sentinels because of our long-term, standardized sampling, and as climate change first responders; because when ecological conditions change, such as invasion by Asian tiger mosquitoes, we have to respond,” Farajollahi said in a statement.
His paper was chosen as one of the 16 most influential and prescient articles published in the journals PLOS One and PLOS Biology; the former published more than 23,000 papers online last year.
The Ecological Impacts of Climate Change by the San Francisco-based nonprofit PLOS is set to formally launch on Aug. 5 online at ploscollections.org/ecoclimatechange.
