Abstract
A new deterministic model for the population biology of immature and mature mosquitoes is designed and used to assess the impact of temperature and rainfall on the abundance of mosquitoes in a community. The trivial equilibrium of the model is globally-asymptotically stable when the associated vectorial reproduction number (R0) is less than unity. In the absence of density-dependence mortality in the larval stage, the autonomous version of the model has a unique and globally-asymptotically stable non-trivial equilibrium whenever 1 < R0 < RC 0 (this equilibrium bifurcates into a limit cycle, via a Hopf bifurcation at R0 = RC 0 ). Numerical simulations of the weather-driven model, using temperature and rainfall data from three cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kwazulu Natal, South Africa; Lagos, Nigeria; and Nairobi, Kenya), show peak mosquito abundance occurring in the cities when the mean monthly temperature and rainfall values lie in the ranges [22 ? 25]0C, [98 ? 121] mm; [24 ? 27]0C, [113 ? 255] mm and [20.5 ? 21.5]0C, [70 ? 120] mm, respectively (thus, mosquito control efforts should be intensified in these cities during the periods when the respective suitable weather ranges are recorded).
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 57-93 |
| Number of pages | 37 |
| Journal | Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2018 |
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Keywords
- Autonomous
- Bézout matrix
- Climate change
- Mosquitoes
- Non-autonomous model
- Reproduction number
- Stability
- Stage-structure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modeling and Simulation
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Computational Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics
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Mathematical analysis of a weather-driven model for the population ecology of mosquitoes. / Okuneye, Kamaldeen; Abdelrazec, Ahmed; Gumel, Abba.
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