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Mosquito survival and dispersal is described by a demographic matrix, denoted \(\Omega.\) It is computed using several parameters:

g

mortality rate

sigma

patch emigration

mu

emigration-related loss

K

a dispersal matrix

The matrix is computed as:

$$ \Omega = \mbox{diag} \left( g + \sigma \mu \right) - K \cdot \mbox{diag} \left( \sigma \left(1-\mu\right) \right) $$

In delay differential equations with a constant EIP (\(\tau\)), survival and dispersal through the EIP is given by: $$ \Upsilon = e^{-\Omega \tau} $$