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. 2016 Feb 10;7:111. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00111

Table 2.

Parameters used for the aphid population growth simulation model.

Name Unit Range Reference Details
Start population Individuals 5 Greenhouse Exp1
Start age days 10–25 Greenhouse Exp1 Drawn at random
Daily mortality Percentage 4 Pavela et al., 2004 Linear declining survival with age
Reproductive status Yes-no Life history Exp2 Age-dependent probabilitya
Reproduction Individuals 2.75–3.51 Life history Exp2 Ellis et al., 1996 Poisson distribution, age-dependentb Power analysis: 2.75–3.45, in steps of 0.05
Maximum age Days 25 Hughes, 1963
Duration Days 14 Greenhouse Exp1

aProbability to reproduce is age-dependent, see Supplementary Table S1 in Supplementary Material 1 for parameterization.

bDaily reproduction is age-dependent and the maximum mean depends on nematode presence, see Supplementary Table S1 in Supplementary Material 1 for parameterization.