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¹Department of Mathematics, University of Pau, 64000 Pau, France. marc.artzrouni@univ-pau.fr

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Area of Science:

Mathematical modeling
Population dynamics
Vector-borne disease ecology

Background:

Tsetse flies transmit trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).
Understanding tsetse fly population dynamics is vital for disease control.
Environmental factors, like temperature, influence insect populations.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a matrix model for tsetse fly population dynamics.
To investigate the impact of adult survival rates and environmental factors on population growth.
To provide a framework for future trypanosomiasis transmission models.

Main Methods:

A parity-structured matrix model was employed.
Incorporated temperature-dependent relationships for pupal and interlarval periods.
Fitted the time-varying model to temperature and population data.

Main Results:

Established a baseline adult daily survival rate of 0.970 for zero intrinsic growth.
Demonstrated that population growth rate is largely insensitive to interlarval period variance.
Successfully modeled tsetse fly population fluctuations using temperature as a dynamic variable.

Conclusions:

The model provides a plausible representation of tsetse fly population dynamics.
Highlights the significant abiotic effect of temperature on population growth.
Offers a framework for assessing climate change impacts on sleeping sickness spread.