Fig 10. Structural elements of the framework are flexible to facilitate building models that are appropriate for various settings.

These diagrams illustrate two examples. left) A forest malaria model with seven patches (including 3 villages and 2 campsites), 6 population strata, and 5 aquatic habitats. The village residents are stratified into loggers and other residents. Loggers from different villages spend time at home or in campsites, which have no permanent residents. Aquatic habitats (the moons) can be in villages, in campsites, or in patches near villages. Some villages (e.g. village 3), could lack mosquitoes but still have populations at risk. Right) It is also possible to model indoor and outdoor blood feeding with indoor and outdoor patches that share the same place. In these models, movement indoors vs. outdoors in the same place is modeled differently from movement among outdoor patches.