Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease

Table 1

Description of the variables and parameters for the Lyme disease model in Figure 1.

Variable	Description
	Number of susceptible mice
	Number of infected mice
	Number of eggs
	Number of susceptible larvae
	Number of infected larvae
	Number of susceptible nymphs
	Number of infected nymphs
	Number of susceptible adults
	Number of infected adults
Parameter	Description
	Mice birth rate	0.02	[16]
	Mice mortality rate	0.01	[16]
	Tick-to-mouse transmission probability	0.9	[17]
	Tick birth rate	456.36	[16]
	Carrying capacity	5,000	[18]
	Death rate/inviability rate of the egg	0.0025	[16]
	Eggs to larval developmental rate	0.00677	[16]
	Tick mortality rate at different life stages
	Tick mortality rate	0.015	[16]
	Mouse-to-tick transmission probability	0.9	[17]
	Larvae-to-nymph development rate (or nymph development rate)	0.00618	[16]
	Nymph-to-adult development rate of (adult development rate)	0.00491	[16]