Fig 8. Predicted distribution of cattle in Africa (top) and chickens in Asia (bottom) from the GLW2 methodology (a and d), the proposed GLW3 methodology (b and e) based on random forest, and of GLW3 methodology using animals per capita instead of absolute density (c and f).

The data used to produce these maps were all from public sources, and the country limit data are from the FAO Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) database.