Granjon Laurent auteur aut IRD Ba K. auteur aut IRD Niang Y. auteur aut IRD Papillon Yves auteur aut IRD Duplantier Jean-Marc auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access Long-term ecological data are of paramount importance to document the effects of global changes on biodiversity and dynamics of populations and communities. The site of Bandia, 70 km southeast of Dakar in western Senegal, has been the scene of numerous ecological studies since the 1970s. In the frame of projects led by researchers of the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), rodent populations were monitored at various periods using capture-mark-recapture (CMR) protocols on trapping grids that yielded important datasets on population dynamics and ecology of the main species present. Among them, the Guinea Multimammate Rat Mastomys erythroleucus proved to represent the dominant species. Thus, CMR data were collected on M. erythroleucus between (i) November 1975-March 1981, (ii) January 1983-October 1986, (iii) January 1997-April 2001, and (iv) June 2007-June 2012. Raw data from the 1975-1981 period were not available, but those from the three other periods are now in the IRD data repository DataSuds at . They represent 2556 (re)captures of 1296 M. erythroleucus individuals. They include the identity of each animal captured with some biological attributes (sex, weight at first capture, and reproductive activity), exact date and point of capture (via a trap-specific code) at each trapping occasion, and additional comments that may help to interpret the data. This dataset concerning one of the most widespread rodent species of the Sahelo-Sudanian bioclimatic belt provides information that can be used to address various questions such as outbreak prediction or effects of climate change. specialized Bandia classified forest/reserve live trapping Mastomys rats population dynamics Sahelo-Sudanian savanna SENEGAL 080 082 [Early access] [7 p.] 2024 0912-3814 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010091037 10.1111/1440-1703.12490 0912-3814 [F B010091037] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010091037 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2024-08/010091037.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2024-08-28 2025-11-06 fdi:010091037 fre