In addition, at no site were the tsunami deposits completely lost, probably because our studied sites, especially those where the original thickness of the tsunami deposits during 2005 survey were thin (few centimeters), were located in flat regions that did not facilitate surface water flow, and in unpopulated areas.
These divergent interactions are further enhanced at our study site because nutrient concentrations and soil moisture although comparable beneath grass and shrub canopies have higher temporal variation beneath the canopy of Larrea compared to Bouteloua [44], indicating that subdominants beneath Larrea are subjected to higher temporal heterogeneity of resources.
However, this effect is absent or strongly reduced in our study site because of an intense fox removal program in the Barrow area (foxes are shot and trapped).
However, predatory pressure is an unlikely explanation for this effect, at least in our study site, because predation events occurred predominantly during the day (Supplementary Figure S2).
We selected this prefecture as our study site because it is in close proximity to several East and Southeast Asian countries and is visited by approximately 300,000 tourists every year.
13 The context in this rural area of Uganda was substantially different from our study site in rural Zambia, because in Uganda, there were many other options available for local treatment, including private clinics, drugs shops, and government health centers.
Because seasons vary by our study sites, primary analyses used temperature and barometric pressure to adjust for seasonality.
We used burrow density as a proxy for prairie dog density because these variables were correlated at our study sites (r=0.60).
Because our study was conducted at a single site, our study findings may not be generalizable to other populations.
