Common predators and factors influencing their abundance in Anopheles funestus aquatic habitats in rural south-eastern Tanzania

• Herieth H. Mahenge ,

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

  * E-mail: hmahenge@ihi.or.tz

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, The Nelson Mandela, African Institution of Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences and Bio Engineering, Tengeru, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1971-7875

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• Letus L. Muyaga,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Joel D. Nkya,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Khamis S. Kifungo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Najat F. Kahamba,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, School of Biodervisty, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Halfan S. Ngowo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Halfan S. Ngowo, Emmanuel W. Kaindoa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, School of Biodervisty, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Emmanuel W. Kaindoa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Halfan S. Ngowo, Emmanuel W. Kaindoa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, The Nelson Mandela, African Institution of Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences and Bio Engineering, Tengeru, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and the Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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