Sterile Insect Technique in a Metapopulation Model. Impact of Network Structure, Male Annihilation Technique and Entomopathogenic Fungi on the Release Strategies

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a biological control method that reduces insect pest and disease vector populations through the release of sterile insects (in general only males). In this work, spatial aspects are accounted for through an explicit metapopulation model of $n$ interconnected pat