Figure 5
From: A Predictive Spatial Distribution Framework for Filovirus-Infected Bats
Framework flowchart. Collected satellite data of representative environmental factors for chiroptera ecology and presence-absence information about bat colonies are fed into the regression model to infer the spatial distribution of the bare carrying capacity, K0. The K0 map, together with a random set of sampled parameters, feeds a compartmental reaction-diffusion model for the bat population. The results of simulations, including the estimated basic reproductive number (see Results) and the density of bats in each state, are averaged over 512 random sets to generate a prediction. Map images were generated using R software packages “maps”, “gdal” and “raster”55,56,57.
