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Figure 5

From: Examining the impact of larval source management and insecticide-treated nets using a spatial agent-based model of Anopheles gambiae and a landscape generator tool

Figure 5

Impact of LSM on mosquito abundance, using an absorbing boundary. The figure depicts the results of applying LSM (in isolation), as the results of GN-LSM [10] are replicated along with the scenarios and landscapes. Each subfigure represents a specific LSM scenario. Subfigures (1)-(3), denoted as C1, C2 and C3, refer to the non-targeted, random removal of aquatic habitats. Subfigures (4)-(6), denoted as T1, T2 and T3, refer to the targeted removal of aquatic habitats within 100, 200 and 300 m of surrounding houses, respectively. The non-targeted scenarios remove the same numbers of aquatic habitats as in the corresponding targeted scenarios (for example, both C1 and T1 remove 4 habitats). Within each subfigure, the Diagonal, Horizontal and Vertical plots represent abundances (for the specified LSM scenario) for three different arrangements of houses in the landscapes (see Additional file 5 for the landscapes). With an absorbing boundary, mosquitoes are killed when they hit an edge of the landscape’s boundary. The x-axis denotes simulation time (in days) and the y-axis denotes mosquito abundance. For brevity, the 150 days results (day 100 - day 249) are shown; the full one-year results are given in Additional file 7. This figure represents averages of a total of 900 (18 × 50) simulations.

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