Fig 1.
Location of Mandena Conservation Zone in southeast Madagascar, relative to the larger, continuous forest of Tsitongambarika.
Fig 2.
Monthly total precipitation (mm), mean temperature (°C), and mean day length (h) at Mandena in 2013.
Table 1.
Comparison of trees (mean ± SD) measured in different habitats within Mandena.
Fig 3.
Vertical structure comparison between each of the three Mandena habitats based on Gautier-transects [45]: littoral forest, littoral swamp, and Melaleuca swamp.
Fig 4.
Home ranges (95% kernel) of Hapalemur meridionalis focal groups at Mandena between January and December 2013.
Areas for each habitat (i.e., littoral forest, littoral swamp, Melaleuca swamp) are shown within each.
Table 2.
Total area (ha) and area per habitat type as obtained via 95% kernel density estimate.
Table 3.
Repeated measures analysis of variance for effects of habitat type on activity (using monthly percentages) of H. meridionalis at Mandena, January-December 2013.
Significant differences indicated in bold.
Fig 5.
Monthly percentage of time spent by H. meridionalis groups in the Melaleuca habitat from January-December, 2013.
Table 4.
Role of Melaleuca swamp habitat on daily activity budget of H. meridionalis.