Diversity and Abundance of Rodents in the Semi-Arid Landscape of Sariska Tiger Reserve, Western India
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Diversity and Abundance of Rodents in the Semi-Arid Landscape of Sariska Tiger Reserve, Western India

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Volume 110, Issue 2, August 2013
Published 2013-08-01
Shilpi Gupta
Wildlife Institute of India, P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, Uttarakhand
Krishnendu Mondal
Wildlife Institute of India, P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, Uttarakhand
K. Sankar
Wildlife Institute of India, P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, Uttarakhand
Qamar Qureshi
Wildlife Institute of India, P.O. Box 18, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, Uttarakhand
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Keywords

Rodents
Density
Semi-Arid Landscape
Sariska Tiger Reserve
Web Trapping Design.

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Gupta, S., Mondal, K., Sankar, K., & Qureshi, Q. (2013). Diversity and Abundance of Rodents in the Semi-Arid Landscape of Sariska Tiger Reserve, Western India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (JBNHS), 110(2), 122–128. Retrieved from http://bnhsjournal.in/index.php/bnhs/article/view/109622
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Abstract

The diversity and abundance of rodents were estimated in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, from November 2007 to June 2009. A total of 41 Sherman traps were deployed at twelve sites under different vegetation types for 10 days during winter and summer, which amounted to a total effort of 4,920 trap nights and recorded eleven species of small rodents. The diversity of rodents was found to be highest in open scrub in winter, and in summer it was highest in Ziziphus mixed forest. Overall (combining both summer and winter), Mus platythrix was found to be most abundant (6.26 individuals/ha), followed by Golunda ellioti (3.41 individuals/ha). The overall rodent density was 22.92±4.65 (SE) animals/ha in winter, and 7.81±2.25 (SE) animals/ha in summer.

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