A quantitative narrative on movement, disease and patch exploitation in nesting agent groups

Wayne M. Getz; Richard Salter; Krti Tallam

This model assumes nothing about mating structures and male limitations; therefore, only females reproduce, given a particular probability at regular colony-return times, provided they have sufficient fitness and sufficiently low stress values. Individuals die at naturalmortality specified rates, as well as with an additional disease-induced-mortality rate during their infectious period. Note that, as demonstrated in the figure below, Reproduction is a Command that occurs only when an agent selects "reproduced" as its current action. According to the rules of the model, this can occur only when the agent is in its home nest, which recurs on a cyclic basis (see the agent Term what should i do for the rules governing this selection).