Table 2.

Parameter Values Used in the Baseline Nymphal Infection Prevalence Model

	2006	2007	2006	2007		2006	2007
	N		B		S	π		γ
N. fuscipes	23.86	13.29	3.56	5.64	0.54	0.172	0.181	0.40
P. maniculatus	26.33	10.09	2.61	2.52	0.75	0.13	0.135	0.17
S. occidentalis	20.64	35.82	19.51a	24.89	0.93b	0b	0b	0b

^a2006 larval burden on S. occidentalis was estimated from the mean values from 2007 and 2008.

^bValues taken from the literature (Slowik and Lane 2009).

Field and lab parameters from 2006 and 2007 of abundance per hectare (N), body burden (B), molting rate (S), infection prevalence (π), and probability of transmission to molted nymphs (γ) were used. Transmission experiment results were averaged over the course of the study (2006–2007). All parameter estimates were derived herein except for S. occidentalis molting and transmission rates, which were taken from the literature.