Table 3.
Symbol | Parameter | Value/equation |
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Birth rate of transmission hosts per month (t) | ||
Carrying capacity of transmission hosts per month (t) | ||
Mortality rate of transmission hosts per month (t) | ||
Carrying capacity of reproduction hosts (per kilometer squared) | ||
MC | Movement capacity () | |
Reproduction hosts in home ranging phase | 2.2 (winter/spring); 1.5 (summer/fall) | |
Reproduction hosts in migration phases | 8.5 | |
pT | Time spent in different habitat types (% of time step) | |
Home ranging transmission hosts in forests, shrubs, and grassland | 60, 30, 10 | |
Home ranging reproduction hosts in forests and shrubs | 85, 15 | |
Grazing reproduction hosts in grassland | 35 | |
Proportion of reproduction hosts venture for grazing (%) | See “Host movement” section | |
Proportion of reproduction hosts in seasonal migration phase (%) | 20 (summer, uphill); 10 (winter, downhill) |
Note: , habitat suitability for reproduction hosts; , habitat suitability for transmission hosts.