Figure 11
Percent reductions in mosquito abundance as a function of LSM coverage and ITN coverage when LSM and ITNs are applied in combination. The x-axis denotes ITN coverage and the y-axis denotes LSM coverage. Each subfigure represents a specific combination of density of houses (density houses ) and mortality (M) for ITNs: subfigures (1)-(3) represent M = 0.2 with density houses of Low, Medium and High, respectively; subfigures (4)-(6) represent M = 0.8 with density houses of Low, Medium and High, respectively. ITN repellence (R) is fixed at 0.5. Each simulation is run for one year; both LSM and ITNs are applied at day 100, and continued up to the end of the simulation. Each subfigure represents filled contour plots where the isolines are labelled with specific percent reduction (PR) values. The colourbar on the right quantifies the PR isolines. The figure represents average percent reduction values of a total of 6,000 (3 × 5 × 4 × 2 × 50) simulations. For ITNs, household-level complete coverage scheme is used (see Figure 3c). A non-absorbing boundary is used. Sample landscapes with the three density houses levels are shown in Figure 4. The figure depicts selected results that involve a subset of the parameters from Table 4; results for the entire parameter space are depicted in Additional file 13.