MSc Dissertation (SACON)

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    Composition of Intertidal Rock Pool Sedentary Fauna from Select Beaches of Southern Coast of Maharashtra
    (SACON, 2020) MOHITE, PAURNIMA; QUADROS,GOLDIN
    Tidepools are common features of rocky shores worldwide. They are poorly studied than the adjacent emergent substratum (rocky patch) and very little information is available about patterns and processes of communities in them. Considering this paucity of literature, the present study was conducted from January to March, 2020 to know the community composition and structure of rocky intertidal tidepool sedentary fauna (macrobenthos) from two rocky shores – Ladghar and Pajpandhari in Dapoli Taluk, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra. The objective of the study was to compare the community composition and structure of sedentary organisms present in the tidepools in different intertidal zones as well as shores. By keeping this objective in the mind, answers to following questions were attempted: 1) How do physico-chemical parameters affect community composition and structure of sedentary organisms in tidepools? To test this, correlation analyses were carried out between the physico-chemical variables and the diversity attributes. 2) What is the distribution pattern of organisms within high tide, mid tide and low tide zones of the intertidal regions. 3) What is the effect of anthropogenic disturbance on the community composition and structure of tidepools. For the second and third questions, tests of community similarity like ANOSIM and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis were done.
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    Insectivorous bird communities of monoculture plantations in Konkan region, Maharashtra
    (SACON, 2020) Joshi, Shardul; JAYAPAL, RAJAH
    Tropical forests worldwide are increasingly fragmented and converted into human-modified landscapes owing to the mounting anthropogenic pressures. The forest fragments remain as habitat islands situated amidst a matrix of human-modified land uses. Though such landscapes of multiple land use are known to negatively impact wild biodiversity, some human-modified land uses are known to act as secondary habitats for select taxa. One such land use type is agricultural plantations. Large amounts of forests around the world have been converted into commercial plantations of cash crops and the role of such plantations in sustaining local biodiversity is of key conservation interest.
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    Urban Green Spaces and their Effect on Bat Activity in Pune, Maharashtra
    (SACON, 2020) IYER, SHRIRANJANI L.; Manchi, Shirish S; Krishnan, Anand
    The increase in urbanisation over the years has affected wildlife and negatively impacted their habitats. The impact of urbanisation can be at a global-scale such as carbon emissions from cities and at a regional-scale like the effects of urban sprawl on the neighbouring habitats and species. The effect of urbanisation is often documented as negatively influencing wildlife. Although urbanisation does have a negative impact on different species, some species have learnt to tolerate and even thrive in human habitations. Such species-specific responses to different urban areas dictate which species dominate the urban ecosystem.