Fig 1.
The left map is for Kenya, which is inside the map of Africa (middle).
The blown-out map (right) is for Nairobi National Park, where the study was conducted. The sampling sites in Nairobi National Park include sites at the Edges (E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 & E6), representing control for the edge habitats (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 & C6) and additional non-categorized sampling sites within the park (EX1, EX2 & EX3). The names of the sites are as follows; E1 Athi Basin, E2 Bangla, E3 Mokoiyet, E4 David Sheldrick, E5 Clubhouse, E6 Asian Settlement; C1- Lion Dip, C2- Kingfisher, C3- Nangolomon Dam, C4- Nairobi Tented Camp, C5- Nangolomon Circuit, C6- Southern Bypass; EX1- Nairobi Tented Camp, EX2- Hyena Dam and EX3- Park Point 2B).
Fig 2.
The diversity, species richness, evenness and abundance of rodents in the forest, savannah and riverine zones of Nairobi National Park.
Fig 3.
Comparison of rodent diversity, species richness, evenness and abundance between the general park and edge habitats, including control in Nairobi National Park.
Fig 4.
Principal component analyses biplots showing clustering of vegetation type (A, B) and human disturbance (C, D) using shrub density, tree density, and herbaceous cover (A, C) and species composition (B, D).
Fig 5.
The mean and median variation in shrub and tree density per hectare and percent herbaceous cover across vegetation types and habitat disturbance categories.
Fig 6.
Boxplots showing the variation in herbaceous cover, shrub density, and tree density with respect to habitat disturbance (A, B, C) and vegetation type (D, E, F) in NNP.
Fig 7.
The percent distribution of dominant plant species in sites sampled by vegetation type (forest, riverine and savannah,) and disturbance (edge and control).
Table 1.
Univariate models and the best multivariate model explaining rodent abundance in Nairobi National Park, Kenya.
Table 2.
Univariate models explaining the association between specific variables with rodent species richness in Nairobi National Park, Kenya.
Table 3.
Univariate models for Shannon-Weiner Index of rodent species diversity.
Table 4.
Univariate models for Brillouin Index for rodent species diversity.
Table 5.
Univariate models for the Simpson index of rodent species diversity.