vertebrate community responses to the changing landscape in saurashtra university campus-rajkot

Research Article
Vibhuti B. Raval and V.C. Soni
DOI: 
xxx-xxx-xxx
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Vertebrate fauna, Community, landscape, decline, extinct, Migratory, Saurashtra University.
Abstract: 

Vertebrate faunal species preferred different landscape depending to their feeding and shelter. Species show many kinds of responses to habitat fragmentation: Some are advantaged and increase in abundance while other decline and become locally extinct. Understanding of these diverse patterns, and the processes underlying them, is an essential foundation for conservation. By using the line transect method the assessment of presence or absence of vertebrate faunal diversity was carried out and with random quadrate sampling method, the tree density and vegetation assessment in Saurashtra University campus has been done. The data has been collected from July-2013 to December-2013. The vertebrate biodiversity according to preferable habitat or landscape has been observed. More vertebrate species diversity found in forest habitat, while scatter distribution was found on open ground. Habitat and bird community indices were strongly correlated in an independent validation datasheet, suggesting that the habitat index can provide a reliable predictor of bird community status (Simpson and Shannon) according to seasonal changes in vegetation cover. The human interference was also measured as an effective factor for avian habitat and behavior (Unpaired t- test). These study also focus on an environmental spectral for monitoring local forest birds and migratory birds populations with associated habitat found on Saurashtra University campus.