Daniels, Ranjit RJ and Hegde, Malati and Gadgil, Madhav (1990) Birds of the man-made ecosystems: the plantations. In: Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Section B, 99 (1). pp. 79-89.
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One-hectare plots were sampled for bird species diversity in the Uttara Kannada district. These plots represented well-preserved evergreen/semievergreen forests, secondary/moist deciduous forests showing different levels of degradation by man and plantations of teak, eucalypts and betelnut. It was found that the betelnut plantation and the evergreen/semievergreen forests had the least bird species diversity ofH′ = 2.58 and 2.61 respectively. The eucalypt and teak plantations hadH′ = 2.69 and 2-92 respectively. In the secondary/moist deciduous forests it ranged from 2.80–3.39. Despite the apparent increase in diversity in the man-modified vegetation types, it was found that there was a gradual displacement of the bird species composition from what was typical to the evergreen forests to those of more urban and scrubby habitats in these man-modified vegetation types. This was particularly so in the eucalypt plantation
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Section B |
| Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2011 11:34 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2011 11:34 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/34896 |
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