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Author: search.filters.author.Bhupathy, S.Subject: search.filters.subject.Western ghats

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    Distribution Pattern of Amphibians in Megamalai Landscape, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu
    (SACON, 2011) Srinivas, G.; Bhupathy, S.
    Amphibians. in particular anurans, contribute a significant proportion or the vertebrate biomass in all the terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. They function as important predator and prey species. However, studies focusing on ecology of these taxa in Indian subcontinent arc scanty. The present study had the following objectives: (1) understand the population of amphibians in the Megamalai landsc;lpe. (2) study the distribution pattern of amphibians with respect to elevation categories and vegetation types and (3) suggest conservation measures. The present study was carried out in Megamalai Hills of Theni Forest Division. From December 2006 November 2008. In the present study. three belt transects Mavadi,. Suruli and Vellimalai were laid from hilltop to the bottom stratified at 200m interval
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    Resource utilization patterns of reptiles in the Tropical Dry Mixed Deciduous Forest of Anaikatty Hills, Western Ghats, India.
    (SACON, 2007) Mukherjee, Debanik; Bhupathy, S.
    The western ghats is one of the 34 globally recognized biodiversity hot spots. Among the 506 species of reptiles reported distributed in India 165 are distributed in the Western ghats. The concept of a biotic community may be defined as tn assemblages of various organisms living together and interacting at all trophic levels. The present study was undertaken with the following objectives (1) to know the suitability of various techniques for sampling reptiles in tropical mixed dry forest (2) To study aspects of population of reptiles in the Anaikatty hills in terms of species richness, diversity and relative abundance (3) to understand the patterns of resource use by reptiles at various spatio-temporal level.