Parameter sets

The program contains a number of pre-defined parameter sets available in the command-line interface or through direct interaction with the C++ code. These sets exemplify interesting model behaviours and can be useful for testing.

To learn how to use these through the command-line interface of the program, please refer to the Tutorials.

For further customisation, refer to the Custom parameter set and Advanced options sections. For further details on the default settings of the program, read the Default behaviour section.

Set comparison

By default, unless specified otherwise, all pre-defined sets include:

• Dispersal: partially mixed populations (low dispersal)

• Gene drive: single release time at driver_start and randomly selected release sites at each release time.

• Toroid boundary type

• DistanceKernel dispersal type

• No alpha0 variance

• “No seasonality” (only baseline contribution to carrying capacity, no rainfall contribution)

Set	Name	No. of patches	Aestivation	Dispersal	Gene Drive	Seasonality	Other	Notes
1	default	default (50)	X	✓	✓	X
2	1 population	1 patch	X	✓	✓	X		Driver sites reduced to 1
3	no dispersal	default	X	X	✓	X
4	full mixing	default	X	✓ full mixing	✓	X
5	1 day	default	X	✓	✓	X
6	high fitness cost	default	X	✓	✓ high fitness cost	X
7	low aestivation	default	✓ low	✓	✓	X
8	high aestivation	default	✓ high	✓	✓	X
9	no gene drive	default	X	✓	X	X
10	high gene drive	default	X	✓	✓ high drive	X		high drive due to higher number of drive sites (x10 relative to default)
11	1 population, full dispersal	1 patch	X	✓ full mixing	✓	X		driver sites reduced to 1
12	low seasonality, default rainfall	default	X	✓	✓	✓ low seasonality, sine rainfall
13	high seasonality, default rainfall	default	X	✓	✓	✓ high seasonality, sine rainfall
14	low seasonality, pre-defined rainfall	default	X	✓	✓	✓ low seasonality, pre-defined rainfall		rainfall data from rainfall.txt
15	high seasonality, pre-defined rainfall	default	X	✓	✓	✓ high seasonality, pre-defined rainfall		rainfall data from rainfall.txt
16	alpha0 variance	default	X	✓	✓	X	non-zero alpha0_variance
17	multiple release times	default	X	✓	✓ multiple release times	X		release times data from rel_times.txt
18	high juvenile survival probability	default	X	✓	✓	X	high comp_power	higher alpha0_mean to account for higher comp_power

Parameter sets

Descriptions for parameters can be found in the InputParams documentation.

	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Set 6	Set 7	Set 8	Set 9	Set 10	Set 11	Set 12	Set 13	Set 14	Set 15	Set 16	Set 17	Set 18
Parameter	default	1 population	no dispersal	full mixing	1 day	high fitness cost	low aestivation	high aestivation	no gene drive	high gene drive	1 population, full dispersal	low seasonality, default rainfall	high seasonality, default rainfall	low seasonality, pre-defined rainfall	high seasonality, pre-defined rainfall	alpha0 variance	multiple release times	high juvenile survival probability
num_runs	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
max_t	1000	1000	1000	1000	1	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
num_pat	50	1	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	1	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
mu_j	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
mu_a	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.125
beta	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
theta	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
comp_power	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15	1/15
min_dev	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
gamma	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025	0.025
xi	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.7	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
e	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95
driver_start	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200
num_driver_M	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	0	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
num_driver_sites	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	0	50	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
disp_rate	0.01	0.01	0	1	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	1	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
max_disp	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
psi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
mu_aes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.95	0.8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
t_hide1	0	0	0	0	0	0	280	280	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
t_hide2	0	0	0	0	0	0	310	310	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
t_wake1	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
t_wake2	0	0	0	0	0	0	130	130	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
alpha0_mean	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	100000	1	1	10000	10	100000	100000	1000000
alpha0_variance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1000	0	0
alpha1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100000	100000	100000	100000	0	0	0
amp	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	1	0	0	0	0	0
resp	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
rec_start	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
rec_end	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
rec_interval_global	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
rec_interval_local	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200
rec_sites_freq	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
set_label	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18