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Figure 1. Relative frequencies of the small mammals caught in each of the 49 localities sampled. 1: Bakel, 2: Badi Nieriko, 3: Bala, 4: Bantako, 5: Birkelane, 6: Boutougoufara, 7: Bransan, 8: Dembankane, 9: Diakene-Wolof, 10: Dianke Makha, 11: Diattacounda, 12: Diawara, 13: Dide Gassama, 14: Dieylany, 15: Doulouyabe, 16: Fadiouth, 17: Gandiaye, 18: Goudiry, 19: Gouloumbou, 20: Goumbayel, 21: Ida Seco, 22: Joal, 23: Kedougou, 24: Kidira, 25: Kothiary, 26: Kounkane, 27: Koussan, 28: Mako, 29: Marsassoum, 30: Mereto, 31: Ndiobene, 32: Niahene, 33: Panal, 34: Rufisque, 35: Sabodala, 36: Segou, 37: Seme, 38: Sil, 39: Sinthian Koundara, 40: Sinthiou Doube, 41: Sinthiou Maleme, 42: Soutouta, 43: Tambacounda, 44: Talibadji, 45: Tobor, 46: Tuabou, 47: Velingara, 48: Yafera, 49: Youppe Hamady (see Table 1 for geographic coordinates and home area of each locality)
Country map retrieved from GADM 3.6 https://gadm.org/index.html) and roads from OpenStreetMap (http://download.geofabrik.de/africa/senegal-and-gambia-latest-free.shp.zip). NR1, NR6 and NR7: National Roads 1, 6 and 7.
Figure 2. k+1 analysis of the room characteristics and the rodent communities. A : C1-C2 factorial map of the rodents. B : Eigenvalues graph of the k+1 analysis. C : C1-C2 Factorial map of the localities grouped by areas. D to H : C1-C2 factorial maps of the room characteristics - D : Room type (br: bedrooms, gr: granaries, kt: kitchens, mw: workshops, nf: non-food stores, od: outdoors, sh: foodshops, sr: stock rooms); E : Stock (0: no stock, 2: some stock present, 3: large stock present); F : Floor (ad: adobe, co: concrete, df: dirt floor); G : Walls (co: concrete, ms: metal sheet, mw: mud wall, st: straw or without); H: Ceiling (co: concrete, ms: metal sheet, st: straw, adobe or without).