<B>Mammals of Papikonda Hills, northern Eastern Ghats, India</B>

Abstract

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Integrating camera traps and community knowledge to assess the status of the Indian pangolinManis crassicaudatain the Eastern Ghats, India

“…The northern Eastern Ghats landscape of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in southern India has vast stretches of contiguous forests (Aditya & Ganesh, 2019). Although there have been few biodiversity studies in this landscape and only 3.53% of the total area is protected (Cardillo et al, 2006; Aditya & Ganesh, 2019), it supports several rare, endemic and threatened species including the Jeypore ground gecko Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis (Agarwal et al, 2012), yellow-throated bulbul Pycnonotus xantholaemus (Sreekar & Srinivasulu, 2010), forest owlet Heteroglaux blewetti (Kumar et al, 2010), leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis , rusty-spotted cat Prionailurus rubiginosus , and stripe-necked mongoose Herpestes vitticollis (Aditya & Ganesh, 2016, 2017), highlighting the conservation significance of this landscape. Although pangolins are known to be hunted in this landscape (Mohapatra et al, 2015; Aditya, 2019), systematic information on their occurrence in this region is lacking (Srinivasulu et al, 2004).…”

Insights into human‐wildlife coexistence through temporal activity pattern overlaps in a neglected tropical forest in India

“…PNP was managed as a Reserve Forest since 1967 and was notified as a National Park in 2008. This long history of protection has afforded PNP with better protection than its buffer and the NEG (Aditya & Ganesh, 2017, 2019). Consequently, PNP retains some of the last contiguous forests in the landscape.…”

“…We selected 58 grids for camera trap (CT) surveys across all habitat types in the PNP and its buffer to survey mammals (Buckland et al, 2001; Yoccoz et al, 2001). CTs were deployed from October to March in both 2014 and 2015, across habitats (Aditya & Ganesh, 2017, 2019; Karanth et al, 2006; O'Brien, 2008; Tobler et al, 2008). Number of survey grids and CTs required was finalized after reconnaissance surveys.…”

Avifaunal diversity along the riverine habitats of Papikonda National Park, Andhra Pradesh, India

“…491944-19.181389 N & 79.541111-83.233333 E), is an important protected area in this landscape. The altitude is 200-800 m and is characterized by southern tropical dry deciduous forest and southern tropical moist deciduous forest types intermingled with scrub vegetation (Champion & Seth 1968;Aditya & Ganesh 2017). Godavari River meanders through the hills of…”