Fig. 1

Study area and sampling strategy. a Distribution range of M. murinus and M. ravelobensis across northwestern Madagascar and location of study sites. Individual capture locations of mouse lemurs in b Ravelobe and c Ankomakoma along four forest transects that were arranged in proximity to one lake each (in blue). The two forest sites were approximately 10 km apart. a The river shape files were provided by [141] and the outlines of the Ankarafantsika National Park were obtained from the Protected Planet Database [142]. b and c Individual coordinates can be found in Additional file 1: Table S8. M.mur = M. murinus; M.rav = M. ravelobensis; ANP = Ankarafantsika National Park