Fig 1.
The distribution of Rift Valley fever outbreaks across the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula between 1998 and 2016 as reported by ProMED-mail (blue) and between 2005 and 2016 as reported by the World Organization for Animal Health (red).
Countries affected are highlighted in salmon and include: Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte (France), Namibia, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen.
Fig 2.
Distributions of driest and wettest quarter precipitation (upper panels) and coldest and warmest quarter temperature (lower panels) across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Fig 3.
Distributions of surface water (left panel) and vegetation loss (right panel) across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Fig 4.
Distributions of livestock (animals per km2), wild Bovidae and Muridae species richness (number of species per km2), and net human migration (number of people into [red] or out of [blue] each km2).
Fig 5.
Landscape suitability (%) to Rift Valley fever outbreaks.
The risk surface is derived from the ecological niche of RVF outbreaks using the Maxent model.
Fig 6.
Permutation importance describing the relative importance of each feature to RVF landscape suitability as derived from the Maxent model.