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    Birds communities of Lower Dachigam Valley, Kashmir
    (Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 1989) Katti, Madhusudan V.; Johnsingh, A.J.T.
    This study explores the ' relationship between birds and vegetation in Lower Dachigam Valley in the Kashmir Himalaya. This area falls at the transition between the Palaearctic and Indo-,Malayan biogeographic realms. It is one of the first studies of bird communities in .the Himalaya and one of few in this temperate tropical transition zone. The study 'was 'aimed at testing the following hypotheses: 1. Bird communities differ between vegetation types 2. Community characteristics are related to various habitat factors viz. vegetation height, plant species diversity and food resource diversity. Transect sampling method was employed to obtain information on bird species composition, diversity and density.