Fig 5. Adult mosquito demography is defined by survival and dispersal.

Mobility rates and dispersal are determined by the available of resources: aquatic habitats (Q), available humans (W + W_δ) and other blood hosts (O^ζ), and sugar (S). The emigration rate is a functional response (F_σ) that increases if any one of the resources is missing. Resource availability and distance also play a role in computing the dispersal kernel, $\mathcal{K}$, that determines where mosquitoes land if they leave a patch. When combined with mortality, a matrix Ω is produced which describes the behavior of adult mosquitoes after emergence.