scholarly journals Vertical Stratification and its Relation to Foliage in Tropical Forest Birds in Western Ghats (India)

2003 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eluvathingal Antony Jayson ◽  
Daniel Nediyakalayil Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Vertical Stratification

scholarly journals Selective logging reduces body size in omnivorous and frugivorous tropical forest birds

2021 ◽  
Vol 256 ◽  
pp. 109036
Author(s):  
Simone Messina ◽  
David Costantini ◽  
Suzanne Tomassi ◽  
Cindy C.P. Cosset ◽  
Suzan Benedick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Selective Logging ◽  
Forest Birds

scholarly journals Diurnal variation in corticosterone release among wild tropical forest birds

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Schwabl ◽  
Elisa Bonaccorso ◽  
Wolfgang Goymann
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Diurnal Variation ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Corticosterone Release

Tree species diversity and community composition in a human-dominated tropical forest of Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Anitha ◽  
Shijo Joseph ◽  
Robert John Chandran ◽  
E.V. Ramasamy ◽  
S. Narendra Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Tree Species Diversity

Vertical Stratification Responses of an Arboreal Dung Beetle Species to Tropical Forest Fragmentation in Malaysia

Biotropica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Tregidgo ◽  
Lan Qie ◽  
Jos Barlow ◽  
Navjot S. Sodhi ◽  
Susan Lee-Hong Lim
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Fragmentation ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Vertical Stratification ◽  
Beetle Species

scholarly journals Cultural drivers of reforestation in tropical forest groves of the Western Ghats of India

2014 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shonil A. Bhagwat ◽  
Sandra Nogué ◽  
Katherine J. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Western Ghats Of India ◽  
The Western Ghats

scholarly journals Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving tropical forest birds

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Cazalis ◽  
Karine Princé ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Mihoub ◽  
Joseph Kelly ◽  
Stuart H.M. Butchart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Bird Diversity ◽  
Bird Species Richness ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

AbstractProtected areas are the cornerstones of global biodiversity conservation efforts1,2, but to fulfil this role they must be effective at conserving the ecosystems and species that occur within their boundaries. This is particularly imperative in tropical forest hotspots, regions that concentrate a major fraction of the world’s biodiversity while also being under intense human pressure3–5. But these areas strongly lack adequate monitoring datasets enabling to contrast biodiversity in protected areas with comparable unprotected sites6,7. Here we take advantage of the world’s largest citizen science biodiversity dataset – eBird8 – to quantify the extent to which protected areas in eight tropical forest biodiversity hotspots are effective at retaining bird diversity, and to understand the underlying mechanisms. We found generally positive effects of protection on the diversity of bird species that are forest-dependent, endemic to the hotspots, or threatened or Near Threatened, but not on overall bird species richness. Furthermore, we show that in most of the hotspots examined this is driven by protected areas preventing both forest loss and degradation. Our results support calls for increasing the extent and strengthening the management efforts within protected areas to reduce global biodiversity loss9–11.

scholarly journals Altitudinal variation of soil organic carbon stock in tropical forest of Courtallam hills, Southern Western Ghats of India

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 702-714
Author(s):  
E. Pandian ◽  
◽  
P. Ravichandran ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Carbon Stock ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Soil Organic Carbon Stock ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
Organic Carbon Stock ◽  
Soc Stocks

The climate change and carbon mitigation through forest ecosystems play an important role in the global perspective. Soil is a huge carbon reservoir and its storage capacity varied greatly with forest type and altitude. The mountain ecosystem varies in soil organic carbon stock (SOC) due to variations in soil types, climatic conditions, vegetation patterns and elevational gradients. Soil organic carbon stockswere measured at three depths (0–10, 10–20, and 20–30 cm) in five different forest elevation (200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 m asl) on Courtallam hills, Southern Western Ghats, India. SOC stocks increased significantly with the increase in altitude (P<0.05) at all the three layers (0–10, 10–20 and 20–30 cm). A total of SOC stocks ranged from 42.79 mg ha-1at 0–30 cm depth were observed in lower altitude (200 m) and the highest value of 50.25 mg ha-1 at 0–30 cm depth was observed in mid-elevation 600 m, while in other elevational showed 46.45, 48.49 and 45.05 mg ha-1 in 400, 800 and 1000 m respectively. SOC ranged from 17.89 to 22.37 mg ha-1 in soil surface layer (0–10 cm), 14.00 to 16.573 mg ha-1 in middle layer (10–20 cm) and 9.08 to 11.35 mg ha-1 in the bottom layer (20–30 cm). These results would also enhance our ability to assesses the role of these forest types in soil carbon sequestration and for developing and validating the SOC models for tropical forest ecosystems.

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