Preliminary Study on The Geographical Niche and Overlap Group of Mosquitoes

The concept of geographical niche was introduced in this paper.It represents the geographical distribution scale and population size of species.Geographical niche breadth and overlap index were measured for the mosquitoes of 19 sites (in 16 provinces) in China,and the overlap groups were classified for the 9 species of mosquitoes by the systematic clustering and principal components analysis (PCA).