Selected wetland soil properties correlate to Rift Valley fever livestock mortalities reported in 2009-10 in central South Africa

• Anna M. Verster,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

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• Janice E. Liang,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Melinda K. Rostal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Alan Kemp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

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• Robert F. Brand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Cuyahoga County Board of Health, Parma, Ohio, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9790-3120

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• Assaf Anyamba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, Maryland, United States of America

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• Claudia Cordel,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ExecuVet Veterinary Clinical and Scientific Consulting, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

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• Robert Schall,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

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• Herman Zwiegers,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

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• Janusz T. Paweska,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

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• William B. Karesh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York City, New York, United States of America

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• Cornie W. van Huyssteen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vanhuyssteencw@ufs.ac.za

  Affiliation Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Republic of South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1597-3580

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