Table 7.

Fulfilment of the TRACE elements

Study	Problem formulation	Model description	Data evaluation	Conceptual model evaluation	Implementation verification	Model output corroboration
Suthar et al., 2014 [13]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Nguyen et al., 2014 [14]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Ibargüen-Mondragón et al., 2016 [15]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Bhagunde, Nikolaou, and Tam, 2015 [16]	Yes	Yes	No	Not completely	No	Not completely
Hellweger, 2013 [17]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
zur Wiesch, Engelstädter, and Sebastian Bonhoeffer, 2010 [18]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Tam et al., 2007 [19]	Yes	Yes	No	Not completely	No	Not completely
Kouyos, zur Wiesch, and Bonhoeffer, 2011 [20]	Yes	Not completely	Not completely	Not	No	Yes

For a complete description of the TRACE elements see Grimm et al. [9]. The two TRACE elements model output verification and model analysis were fulfilled by all eight studies as this was a selection criterion for the comparison with the TRACE elements