Fig. 2

The change in Capability (a) and Effort (b) with Method sensitivity of all seven delimiting strategies on a randomly distributed host landscape. The inspector-estimated (IE) duration of the pest spread, and annual/generational spread distances were matched with the true values. For each realization of the simulated epidemic, all delimiting strategies started from the same randomly selected symptomatic individual. Each boxplot was obtained from 500 iterations. Mean values are indicated with a dark-red diamond.