Cyclical dynamics are dampened along chains in the metapopulation network
We found that even when all populations share the same parametrizations and initial conditions, that populations further along network chains have reduced proportions of currently infectious individuals and dampened oscillatory dynamics compared to those they would exhibit in isolation (Fig \ref{621939}). This is due to the movement of (partially) immune individuals between the populations, increasing the proportion of individuals with specific and cross-reactively immunity in populations further along the chain. While infectious individuals move at an equal rate, the proportion of the population that is currently infectious at any given time is much smaller than the proportion with immunity.