Dsouza, S and Padhye, A (2022) A cross-taxonomic comparison of bird and butterfly communities of Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharashtra, India, spanning two decades. In: Current Science, 123 (10). pp. 1253-1258.
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Human disturbance can alter the structure and function of ecological communities. We studied the bird and but-terfly communities of Tamhini Wildlife Sanctuary, Maha-rashtra, India, to understand the effects of changing land use and management in two decades. We replicated a previous study conducted between 1998 and 2001; sam-pling seven line transects every fortnight between April 2016 and April 2017. Species diversity increased for both taxa, and community composition was significantly diffe-rent across studies. Generalist species witnessed a maxi-mum increase in diversity, while some specialist guilds declined. While this study is limited in spatial scale, we highlight the effects of local changes in land use and management across trophic levels and the cascading ef-fects on ecosystem function. © 2022, Current Science. All Rights Reserved.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Current Science |
| Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Indian Academy of Sciences. |
| Keywords: | Conservation management; Functional diversity; Indicator species; Landscape change; Wildlife sanctuary |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2023 06:33 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2023 06:33 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79224 |
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