Vector bionomics and vectorial capacity as emergent properties of mosquito behaviors and ecology
Fig 9
Simulations in MBITES illustrate that all of the bionomic parameters are sensitive to the proportion of peri-domestic habitats, which gives a measure of how frequently a mosquito must search. The x-axis of each plot ranges from 0% to 100%, and each summary bionomic parameter is plotted as mean (solid line), median (dashed line), and the shaded area covers the 20-80% quantile range of the data. The distribution of number of blood hosts B: exhibits significant right skew, such that the mean exceeds the 80% quantile at low proportion peri-domestic breeding habitats. Because the simulations are stochastic, the exact number of mosquitoes from which Monte Carlo estimates of the bionomic parameters were computed varied somewhat over the 26 landscapes, the mean was 456,579 mosquitoes with a standard deviation of 754 mosquitoes.