Tobias Kürschner, Cédric Scherer, Viktoriia Radchuk, Niels Blaum & Stephanie Kramer-Schadt (2021): Movement can mediate temporal mismatches between resource availability and biological events in host–pathogen interactions. Ecology and Evolution 11(10), 5728–5741, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7478
We used a spatially explicit individual-based eco-epidemiological model originally developed by Scherer et al. (2020). It is based on earlier models considering neighbourhood infections only which was developed by Kramer-Schadt et al. (2009) and Lange et al. (2012). The model by Scherer et al. (2020) relies on individual movement decisions of host individuals, i.e. long-distance roaming movement of males (hereafter termed ‘movement’), a process important for disease transmission. We further modified the model by adding spatiotemporal landscape dynamics representing changing resource availability, a response of movement decisions to that landscape and a resource-based mortality. A complete and detailed model description following the modified ODD (Overview, Design concepts, Detail) protocol (Grimm et al., 2020, 2006) is provided in the supplementary material. The NetLogo model and the R code to analyse the simulation results are available on Zenodo Kürschner et al. (2021)