The nonlinearity of the simulation model stems from Eq 1, since the probability of infestation PStoI,i depends on the infestation prevalence Ii(t)/K instead of being a constant value, therefore the mean of the binomial distribution for the number of trees that get infected depends on the nonlinear term Si(t)Ii(t)/K.
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