Compute Host Availability for Blood Feeding

Compute the availability of the population strata defined in the model as hosts for blood feeding by mosquitoes

compute_W(search_weights, H, TaR)

Arguments

search_weights

blood feeding search weights for the host strata

H

host density

TaR

the host species index

Value

host availability, a vector

Details

Host availability to blood searching mosquitoes in patches is the sum of search weights of the human strata, a vector \(\omega\), weighted by time at risk, defined by a matrix \(\Psi\) that is \(n_p \times n_h\). The search weight is a per-capita measure so we weight it by human population density, \(H\). Availability, \(W\) is computed as $$\Psi \cdot (\omega H).$$

References

WuSL2023SpatialDynamicsramp.xds

See also

Availability of all vertebrate hosts for blood feeding is computed by compute_B()