A preliminary study on relative abundance of wild mammals based on camera trap in Balaram-Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat State, India

Are Indian foxes vulnerable in degraded habitat in North Gujarat?

“…The area is in biogeographic zone 4, semiarid, and is classified as ravine thorn forest: 6B/C2 (Champion & Seth 1968, Singh 2001, Chaudhary et al 2022. It is highly fragmented with only a few patches of forest having greater diversity of flora and fauna than the surrounding landscapes (Rabari et al 2022a). The region falls into three different seasons with varied climatic condition where temperature ranges from 5 o C in winter to 48 o C in summer.…”

“…The region falls into three different seasons with varied climatic condition where temperature ranges from 5 o C in winter to 48 o C in summer. Annual rainfall is 600-750 mm during the monsoon (Rabari et al 2022b). We visited the field regularly and recoded cases of Indian fox kill.…”