. 2024 Jan 29;17:38. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06119-6

Table 1.

Candidate covariates evaluated for predicting the presence of aquatic habitats of An. funestus mosquitoes

Variable	Source of data and description of variables
Village	Physical parameter recorded for each aquatic habitat in the field
Habitat type^a
Habitat size
Water depth
Water source^a
Watercolor^a
Water movement^a
Permanence of water^a
Presence of vegetation
Vegetation types
Algae status
Types of algae
Presence of shade^a
Surroundings environment^a
Distance to nearby house
Proportion of:	Proportion of land cover classes calculated in a 300-m buffer around each aquatic habitat from the surveyed points Data from European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery [28]
- tree/forest areas^a
- shrublands
- grassland
- crops
- built-up areas^a
- bare land
- flooded vegetation
Distance (m) from the nearest:	Distances (m) between each aquatic habitat and the nearest patch of each land cover class Data from European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery [28]
- tree/forest
- shrubland
- grassland
- crops
- built-up area
- bare land
- flooded vegetation
Elevation (m)	Derived from a 10-m resolution digital elevation model (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov) [27]
Slope (°)
Aspect
Population density	Number of people living in the 300-m buffer Data obtained from the Global Human Settlement Layer project [30]

^aSignificant variables that were retained in the final model (details provided in Results section)