About the Authors

Norman Peter Reeves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

reevesn@icloud.com

Affiliation Sumaq Life LLC, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Ahmed Ramadan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Sumaq Life LLC, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Victor Giancarlo Sal y Rosas Celi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sección de Matemáticas, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú

John William Medendorp

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Urban Center, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Harun Ar-Rashid

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agricultural Advisory Society (AAS), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Timothy Joseph Krupnik

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program, International Center for the Improvement of Wheat and Maize (CIMMYT), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Anne Namatsi Lutomia

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Julia Maria Bello-Bravo

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Barry Robert Pittendrigh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Urban Center, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: N. Peter Reeves is the Founder and President of Sumaq Life LLC. Ahmed Ramadan is a part-time employee of Sumaq Life LLC. Sumaq Life LLC applies mathematical modeling approaches to understand complex systems in order to optimize their performance. It receives funding for these services, including work on the current project. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors declare no competing interest in the production of this work”.