Roles of host and environment in shift of primary anthrax host species in Kruger National Park

• Sunday O. Ochai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.o.ochaijr@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Antimicrobial Research Unit, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0094-9537

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• Lourens Snyman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Amelie C. Dolfi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

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• Abel Ramoelo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Brian K. Reilly,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-1547

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• Judith M. Botha,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Savanna Research Unit, Scientific Services, South African National Parks, Skukuza, South Africa

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• Edgar H. Dekker,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Office of the State Veterinarian, Forestry and Fisheries, Government of South Africa, Skukuza, South Africa

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• O. Louis van Schalkwyk,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Agriculture, Office of the State Veterinarian, Forestry and Fisheries, Government of South Africa, Skukuza, South Africa, Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany

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• Pauline L. Kamath,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America

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• Emma Archer,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5374-3866

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• Wendy C. Turner,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0302-1646

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• Henriette van Heerden

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa

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