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Table 2 The effect of categorical variables within a 10 m radius of the sampling points on the number of Anopheles mosquitoes caught in resting clay pots, as shown by Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Wilcoxon pair wise comparison method

From: Shady business: understanding the spatial ecology of exophilic Anopheles mosquitoes

Category	Number	Density of mosquitoes
Category	Number	Males	Females
Land cover
Banana	69	0.72^a	4.04^a
Bare	12	0.08^b	0.33^b
Cotton	5	0.00^b	0.00^b
Grass	12	0.00^b	0.33^b
Maize	29	0.17^ab	1.24^b
Mixed	51	0.21^ab	0.51^b
Ploughed	13	0.00^b	0.15^b
Shrub	9	0.00^b	0.22^b
P-value		0.002	0.000
Shading
Open	85	0.04^a	0.14^a
Partial	41	0.12^a	1.29^b
Shaded	74	0.80^b	3.89^c
P-value		0.000	0.000
Distance category
Within 5 m	40	0.3	0.32^a
Within 25 m	40	0.13	0.73^ac
Within 50 m	40	0.25	2.15^bc
Within 75 m	40	0.57	2.55^b
Within 100 m	40	0.43	3.08^b
P-value		0.429	0.0115

^abcValues within each category in the same column, followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P > 0.05)

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