Figure 5

Relationships between mosquito diversity and the gradient of forest physiognomies. A) Mosquito species richness has a bimodal, skewed response pattern. The strong peak is related to the heterogeneity of vegetation complexity. B) The heterogeneity of vegetation complexity has also a bimodal skewed response pattern, similar to mosquito species richness. C) Mosquito species richness increased linearly with heterogeneity of vegetation complexity until it reached an asymptote where a mix of arboreal and scrub vegetation occurred. D) The mosquito assemblage evenness-dominance profile as a function of heterogeneity of vegetation complexity. High levels of heterogeneity of vegetation complexity resulted in assemblage evenness, whereas medium to low levels of heterogeneity of vegetation complexity resulted in the presence of dominant assemblages. GAM for non-monotonic HOF models and 95%CI are in Additional file 8: Figure S6.