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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Biol Dyn. 2015;9:52–72. doi: 10.1080/17513758.2015.1005698

Table 2.

Patch parameters: the parameter values for the simulations experiments in Figures 3-7.

Parameter Value (P1, P2, P3) Explanation
Baseline
σh (19, 19, 19) Maximum bites on a human per day
Kv (1000, 1000, 1000) Mosquito carrying capacity
Patch density (13,13,13) Fraction of locations per patch
Movement rate lnN(μ,σ2), mean = 1, var. = 0.001 Average number oflocation changes per day
Heterogeneous patch, high movement
σh (5, 19, 30) Maximum bites on a human per day
Kv (750, 1500, 3750) Mosquito carrying capacity
Patch density (12,13,16) Fraction of locations per patch
Movement rate lnN(μ,σ2), mean = 1, var. = 0.001 Average number of location changes per day
Heterogeneous patch, medium movement
σh (5, 19, 30) Maximum bites on a human per day
Kv (750, 1500, 3750) Mosquito carrying capacity
Patch density (12,13,16) Fraction of locations per patch
Movement rate lnN(μ,σ2), mean = 0.1, var. = 0.001 Average number of location changes per day
Heterogeneous patch, low movement
σh (5, 19, 30) Maximum bites on a human per day
Kv (750, 1500, 3750) Mosquito carrying capacity
Patch density (12,13,16) Fraction of locations per patch
Movement rate lnN(μ,σ2), mean = 0.01, var. = 0.001 Average number of location changes per day
Heterogeneous patch, very low movement
σh (5, 19, 30) Maximum bites on a human per day
Kv (750, 1500, 3750) Mosquito carrying capacity
Patch density (12,13,16) Fraction of locations per patch
Movement rate lnN(μ,σ2), mean = 0.001, var. = 0.001 Average number of location changes per day

Notice, for the simulations in the heterogeneous scenarios only the movement rate changes.