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- Title
Habitat Use by Two Sympatric Species, Muntiacus muntjak muntjak and Nemorhaedus goral bedfordi in Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary, India.
- Authors
Ilyas, Orus; Khan, Jamal A.
- Abstract
We studied aspects of ecology and conservation of barking deer and goral in the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary from January 1996 to December 1998. The methods used included extensive monitoring of existing forest trails in different oak patches for quantification of the habitat use. Vegetation was sampled at the animal-centred plots and random plots during pre-monsoon and post-monsoon periods. Principal Component Analysis was done for barking deer and the goral. For the barking deer, the first two principal components accounted for 26.69% and 30% of variance in the data matrix during the pre- and post-monsoon seasons respectively, whereas for the goral the first two principal components accounted for 36.9% and 29.8% variance during the pre- and post- monsoon periods respectively. Barking deer prefers the area with high cover, density and diversity of both trees and shrubs, whereas the goral prefers areas with high grass density, steep slope with low to medium tree cover and shrub density. The conservation implications of the results are discussed.
- Subjects
INDIA; HABITATS; MUNTIACUS; NAEMORHEDUS; WILDLIFE refuges; PLANT spacing; PLANT diversity; DEER; GORALS; ANIMAL sanctuaries; WILDLIFE conservation
- Publication
International Journal of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, 2006, Vol 32, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
0377-015X
- Publication type
Article