Factors governing habitat occupance of ungulates in Gir Lion Sanctuary, Gujarat, India

International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-83

  Khan, Jamal A ^a,b  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Axis axis; Boselaphus tragocamelus; Cervus unicolor; Habitat preference index; Line transect; Pellet groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344674826     PISSN: 0377015X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Berwick, S.H. 1974. The community of wild ruminants in Gir forest ecosystem. Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, U.S.A. 226 pages.
2. Burnham, K.P., Anderson, D.R. and Laake, J.L. 1980. Estimation of Density from Line Transect Sampling of Biological Population. Wildlife Monograph No. 72. The Wildlife Society, U.S.A. 202 pages.
3. Cairns, A.L. and Telfer, E.S. 1980. Habitat use by four sympatric ungulates in Boreal mixed wood forest. Journal of Wildlife Management 44: 849-857.
4. Champion, H.G. and Seth, S.K. 1968. A Revised Survey of Forest Types of India. Manager of Publication, Government of India, New Delhi. 404 pages.
5. Collins, W.B. 1981. Habitat preferences of mule deer as rated by pellet group distributions. Journal of Wildlife Management 45: 969-972.
6. Collins, W.B. and Urness, J.P. 1984. The pellet-group technique as an indicator of relative habitat use: response to Leopold et al. Wildlife Society Bulletin 12: 327.
7. Daniel Edge, W. and Les Marcum, C. 1989. Determining elk distribution with pellet-group and telemetry techniques. Journal of Wildlife Management 53: 621-624.
8. Dinerstein, E. 1980. An ecological survey of Royal Karnali-Bardia wildlife reserve, Nepal. Biological Conservation 18: 5-38.
9. Fowler, J. and Cohen, L. 1986. Statistics for ornithologist. BTO Guide No. 22. British Trust for Ornithology. Hertfordshire. 175 pages.
10. Gilpin, M.E. and Soule, M.E. 1986. Minimum viable populations. Process of species extinctions. pages 19-34, In: M.E. Soule (Editor). Conservation Biology, the Science of Scarcity and Diversity. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers.
11. Hall-Martin, A.J. 1974. A note on the seasonal utilization of different vegetation types by giraffe. South African Journal of Science 70: 122-123.
12. Johnsingh, A.J.T. 1983. Large mammalian prey-predators in Bandipur. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 80: 1-57.
13. Khan, J.A., Rodgers, W.A., Johnsingh, A.J.T. and Mathur, P.K. 1990. Gir Lion Project: Ungulate-Habitat Ecology in Gir. Final Project report, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. 202 pages.
14. Loft, E.R. and Kie, J.G. 1988. Comparison of pellet-group and radio triangulation methods for assessing deer habitat use. Journal of Wildlife Management 52: 523-527.
15. Martin, C. 1977. Status and ecology of the barasingha (Cervus duvauceli branderi) in Kanha National Park, India. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 74: 60-132.
16. Mishra, H.R. 1982. The ecology and behaviour of chital (Axis axis) in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K. 240 pages.
17. Pettifer, H.L. and Stumpf, R.H. 1981. An approach to the calculation of habitat preference data: Impala on Loskop Dam Nature Reserve. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 11: 5-13.
18. Putman, R.J. 1984. Facts from faeces. Mammal Review 14: 79-97.
19. Riney, T. 1982. Study and Management of Large Mammals. Wiley-Interscience, London. 482 pages.
20. Schaller, G.B. 1967. The Deer and The Tiger. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, U.S.A. 370 pages.
21. Schoen, J.W. and Kirchhoff, MD. 1990. Seasonal habitat use by Sitka black tailed deer on Admiratty Island, Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 54: 371-378.