Research Article

Malaria Knowledge, Concern, Land Management, and Protection Practices among Land Owners and/or Managers in Lowland versus Highland Ecuador

Figure 1

Map of interview localities ( ) in Ecuador, plotted by five general land use types (see legend). The numbers of cases of malaria recorded in population centers during the last 11 recorded years are indicated by progressively larger grey circles, where the smallest circles are 1–49 malaria cases and the largest are 10000–40000 cases (Source: SNEM Ecuador, 1997–2008 [7]), demonstrating that all cases were recorded below the 1500 m altitudinal division (hatched line). Inset: detail of interview localities near Quito, Ecuador. Map prepared using ArcGIS v.10 software (ESRI 2010).
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