The mammalian communities in coffee plantations around a protected area in the Western Ghats, India

Bali, Archana; Kumar, Ajith; Krishnaswamy, Jagdish

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.017

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“…Several studies have demonstrated that agroforest landscapes could help "produce" wildlife and provide conservation opportunities (Bali et al, 2007;Anand et al, 2010;Garcia et al, 2010;Ranganathan et al, 2010;Robbins et al, 2015). However, most studies have typically focused on a single taxon and/ a single land use type (Bali et al, 2007;Anand et al, 2008;Ranganathan et al, 2008).…”

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“…However, most studies have typically focused on a single taxon and/ a single land use type (Bali et al, 2007;Anand et al, 2008;Ranganathan et al, 2008). For facilitating development of realistic conservation policy and management decisions governing these landscapes, it is essential to examine how taxon and guild-specific sensitivities in multiple land uses at large spatial scales.…”

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Producing Diversity: Agroforests Sustain Avian Richness and Abundance in India's Western Ghats

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Globally, protected areas have long been the corner stone of biodiversity conservation efforts. In India's Western Ghats, small and isolated protected areas are embedded in a matrix of multiple land-uses, most of which include agroforests. These agroforests are being increasingly recognized for their supplementary role in conserving wildlife. We examined bird species richness and densities in areca (Areca catechu), coffee (Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora) and rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) agroforests in the Western Ghats. We developed a priori hypotheses, predicting that bird species richness and guild density would be highest in coffee, followed by areca and rubber agroforests. We carried out 551 point-count surveys involving 386 hours of sampling in 187 agroforests across a 29,634 km 2 area of the Ghats. We observed 204 bird species, of which 170 were residents. The average estimated richness per agroforest was higher in coffee (60.5) compared to rubber (45.4) and areca (34.1). We modeled species richness as a function of relevant biogeographic and environmental covariates. The most influential factors were tree cover, tree density and rainfall in all agroforests, but the strength of these effects varied. Coffee supported higher densities in all four habitat and three feeding guilds compared to areca and rubber. We integrated extensive field sampling with modeling that accounted for imperfect detection, while assessing bird richness and densities across multiple agroforest types. We establish that coffee agroforests are substantially richer in birds than rubber and areca, but all three agroforests play an important role in providing subsidiary habitats for birds in the Ghats. Policy decisions and markets must incorporate such biodiversity values and services provided by these agroforests to sustain and facilitate long-term biodiversity conservation.

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“…This type of vegetation will also be useful for locals as an extractive resource reserve. The conservation value of such human-constructed niches for primates has been observed in the Neotropics, for instance, tamarins (Raboy, Christman, & Dietz, 2004) and howler monkeys (Williams-Guillén, McCann, Martinez Sanchez, & Koontz, 2006), and such niches are increasingly emerging in South Asia (Bali, Kumar & Krishnaswamy, 2007).…”

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Local People’s Perceptions of Crop Damage by Common Langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) and Human-langur Conflict in Keshabpur of Bangladesh

Khatun¹,

Ahsan²

2013

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We studied crop damage and human-langur conflicts in six villages of Keshabpur upazila in the Jessore district of Bangladesh from September 2009 to August 2010. Data were collected by interviewing local people with a questionnaire. We discuss the attitudes of locals towards crop damage inflicted by the common langur (Semnopithecus entellus). We analysed local deterrent methods for reducing crop damage and the management strategy adopted by the Forest Department to conserve langurs. Thus, we investigated how demographic variables were associated with the perceptions of locals towards crop damage and conflicts. A total of 27 different crop species were cultivated across the villages, among which langurs mostly damaged fruits. Although most damage occurred during the fruiting season langurs damaged crops throughout the year. Around 55 % of the respondents reported that the local deterring methods were effective but that they affect their children's education and economy. Furthermore, almost 59 % of the respondents were tolerable towards the langur damage. People living in villages with a high langur population and where weak conservation methods were used reported greater crop damage than their counterparts. A linear regression analysis revealed that the occupation, landholding status, and ethical and religious beliefs of the people included in this study has a significant impact on their attitudes regarding conservation. Therefore, there is an urgent need to implement conservation measures to mitigate human-langur conflicts as well as to conserve common langurs in areas where humans and langurs coexist.

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“…These human modified landscapes are taking over the native forest and now form a significant amount of the earth's land surface (Bali et al 2007). In the highly populated and diverse tropics, conservation in relatively pristine habitats is important but clearly inadequate for sustaining the earth's biological diversity (Janzen 1998;Daily et al 2003).…”

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Amphibian communities in three different coffee plantation regimes in the Western Ghats, India

Rathod¹,

Rathod²

2013

J. Threat. Taxa

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The mammalian communities in coffee plantations around a protected area in the Western Ghats, India

Cited by 86 publications

References 66 publications

Producing Diversity: Agroforests Sustain Avian Richness and Abundance in India's Western Ghats

Producing Diversity: Agroforests Sustain Avian Richness and Abundance in India's Western Ghats

Local People’s Perceptions of Crop Damage by Common Langurs (Semnopithecus entellus) and Human-langur Conflict in Keshabpur of Bangladesh

Amphibian communities in three different coffee plantation regimes in the Western Ghats, India

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