Table 1. Parameter values for patches in the simulated landscape.

The ratio of mosquitoes to humans varied depending on landscape configuration where s = 0 for the homogeneous configuration and s = {0.17m, 0.33m, 0.5m, 0.67m} for the spatially heterogeneous configurations.

Parameter	Description	Value	Units	Reference(s)
m	Ratio of mosquitoes to humans	∼ N(60, s)	mosquitoes/human
a	Mosquito biting rate	0.1	bites per mosquito per day	[49]
b	Effective transmission from mosquito to human	0.1	probability	[50]
c	Effective transmission from human to mosquito	0.214	probability	[51, 52]
g	Mosquito per-capita death rate	0.167	probability of mosquito dying per day	[53, 54]
n	Incubation period	10	days	[55, 56]
r	Recovery rate	0.0067	days−1	[57]
N	Total population size	9 × 106	number of human hosts
k	Rate of movement	[0, 0.2]	days−1