Long-range movements coupled with heterogeneous incubation period sustain dog rabies at the national scale in Africa
Fig 1
Modeled domestic dog population in Central African Republic.
A) Geographical distribution of the predicted dog subpopulations divided in rural (light blue) and urban (violet) patches. The red shaped area indicates the Ouham-Pendé prefecture. B) Probability distribution of the estimated dog population size per patch in rural (light blue) and urban (violet) patches. C) Probability distribution of the estimated dog population density per km2 per patch in rural (light blue) and urban (violet) patches. D) Probability distribution of the distance between any two patches in the metapopulation network, whether connecting two urban patches (orange), two rural patches (dark red), a urban with a rural patch (black). The two dashed vertical lines indicate the separation between short, medium, and long-range movements. The satellite map was generated using data sourced from OpenStreetMap (OpenStreetMap contributors) and created through QGIS software (QGIS Development Team (2019). QGIS Geographic Information System. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. http://qgis.osgeo.org).