About the Authors

Huaiyu Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Huaiyu Tian, Yun Feng, Bram Vrancken

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tianhuaiyu@gmail.com (HT); zhanghl715@163.com (HZ); simon.dellicour@kuleuven.be (SD)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Yun Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Huaiyu Tian, Yun Feng, Bram Vrancken

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Control and Prevention, Dali, China

Bram Vrancken

Contributed equally to this work with: Huaiyu Tian, Yun Feng, Bram Vrancken

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Evolutionary and Computational Virology, Leuven, Belgium

Bernard Cazelles

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure UMR 8197, Eco-Evolutionary Mathematics, École Normale Supérieure, France, Unité Mixte Internationnale 209, Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Systems, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement et Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Bondy, France

Hua Tan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mandev S. Gill

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Evolutionary and Computational Virology, Leuven, Belgium

Qiqi Yang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Yidan Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Weihong Yang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Control and Prevention, Dali, China

Yuzhen Zhang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Control and Prevention, Dali, China

Yunzhi Zhang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Control and Prevention, Dali, China

Philippe Lemey

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

Affiliation KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Evolutionary and Computational Virology, Leuven, Belgium

Oliver G. Pybus

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

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nils Chr. Stenseth

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Hailin Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

tianhuaiyu@gmail.com (HT); zhanghl715@163.com (HZ); simon.dellicour@kuleuven.be (SD)

Affiliation Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Control and Prevention, Dali, China

Simon Dellicour

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tianhuaiyu@gmail.com (HT); zhanghl715@163.com (HZ); simon.dellicour@kuleuven.be (SD)

Affiliations KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Evolutionary and Computational Virology, Leuven, Belgium, Spatial Epidemiology Lab (SpELL), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.