Ecological Factors Determining Barking Deer Distribution and Habitat Use in the Mid-Hills of Nepal
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Alternative codes found
RIV/49777513:23420/22:43966185 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10445698
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.894369/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.894369/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.894369" target="_blank" >10.3389/fevo.2022.894369</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ecological Factors Determining Barking Deer Distribution and Habitat Use in the Mid-Hills of Nepal
Original language description
Barking deer is found in dense tropical and subtropical forests of Asia. It is listed as ´least concerned´ by the International Union of Conservation of Nature and as ´vulnerable´ in Nepal, where it is also protected. Due to the habitat loss and fragmentation by human activities, barking deer abundance is decreasing, which may even ultimately lead to its extinction. This in turn might negatively affect local ecosystem such as the abundance of the endangered common leopard, for which barking deer is the main prey species in the mid-hills of Nepal. We therefore need to know factors affecting barking deer abundance and its habitat preferences. To determine these factors, we recorded barking deer either by direct sighting or by any evidence of its indirect presence observed through transect surveys in January and February, 2019. To analyze habitat preference, the presence of barking deer was set to 1 if the barking deer or any sign of its presence were observed ´used plots,´ or to 0 if the barking deer or any sign of its presence were not observed (´habitat availability plot´). We measured main four ecological drivers such as forest management regime, microclimate, disturbance and food resources, which include 11 habitat characteristics in spots where barking deer was present, and in randomly selected spots. We found that elevation, slope, distance from settlement, presence of tree species, depth of leaf litter and percentage cover of leaf litter were most significantly affecting its presence. These results can serve as guidelines for local authorities to prevent decline in abundance of barking deer.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2018123" target="_blank" >LM2018123: CzeCOS</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2296-701X
e-ISSN
2296-701X
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JUN
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
894369
UT code for WoS article
000815021800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85133464706