Mosquito larval habitat model: a complete climate-driven approach

In biological modeling, accurate modeling of the life cycle of an organism needs to account for the complexity of the organism, as well as the interactions between the organism and its environment. Mosquitoes are an organism commonly modeled as a vector for disease transmission. A wide range of habitats, depending on species and location, make mosquitoes an interesting and challenging organism to model. In this paper, we focus on modeling the mosquito larval habitat, which directly determines the amount of adult mosquitoes available to transmit disease. We developed a model intended to represent all of the possible climate-driven larval habitats available throughout the world. We explore various water storage equations for use within our model, then use a particular combination of a subset of these equations in our approach. Our study results include qualitative and quantitative comparisons. They show that our new model is capable of modeling natural, real-world habitats.