Table 2.

Model parameters and parameter values. Parameters marked * were inferred as described below.

Parameter	Definition	Unit	Prior	Posterior
q	Proportion of adult females laying eggs	−	0.61 − 0.85 [65]	*
n(Ta)	Number of eggs laid per female	−	−1.1057 Ta2 + 56.208 Ta – 662.1 [65]
ρ(Tw)	Proportion of eggs hatching	−	−0.0034 Tw2 + 0.1719 Tw – 1.248 [65]
μE	Per capita egg mortality rate	days−1	0.32 − 0.8 [10,70]	*
μL	Per capita age-dependent larval mortality rate	days−1	1/αLβL
μLC	Per capita age-independent larval mortality rate	days−1	0.0013 Tw2 − 0.0704 Tw + 0.9581
μP	Per capita pupal mortality rate	days−1	0.25 [11]
μA	Per capita age-dependent adult mortality rate	days−1	1/αAβA
μAC	Per capita age-independent adult mortality rate	days−1	(5.37 × 10−5) e 0.228Ta
μK	Per capita density- (and rainfall-) dependent larval mortality rate	days−1	${\text{μ}}_C{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^7{L}_i}/K$ [11]
μC	Constant	days−1	0–10,000	*
K	Carrying capacity	−	[11]
τ	Days of rainfall contributing to carrying capacity	days	<10 [11]	*
αL	Shape parameter of larval gamma hazard function	−
βL	Scale parameter of larval gamma hazard function	days	−0.0112 Tw2 + 6.0775 Tw – 6.709
αA	Shape parameter of adult gamma hazard function	−	3
βA	Scale parameter of adult gamma hazard function	days	171.26 e−0.1191Ta
σE	Per capita egg development rate	days−1	1/dE [68]
σL	Per capita larval development rate	days−1	1/dL [68]
σP	Per capita pupal development rate	days−1	1/dP [68]
σA	Per capita adult development rate	days−1	1/dA [68]
ΔT	Difference between environmental air and water temperature	°C	2.9 − 7.6 [71]	*