TY - JOUR
T1 - Habitat Preference and Diversity of Anuran in Durgapur, an Industrial City of West Bengal, India
AU - Dutta, Sachinandan
AU - Mukhopadhyay, Subhra Kumar
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors thankfully acknowledge the infrastructural support extended by the Director of Public Instruction, Government of West Bengal and the Head of Department of Conservation Biology, Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Authors also expressed their gratitude to H. P. Jana, S. Saha, S. Bahatacharyya, S. Banaerjee, A. Chatarjee and S. Pal for their support and help during the field work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012, Zoological Society, Kolkata, India.
PY - 2013/6/1
Y1 - 2013/6/1
N2 - Anuran diversity study was conducted for one year between June 2008 and August 2009 at Durgapur, an industrial city of West Bengal, India. Nine species under four families of the Order Anura were found to occur in Durgapur. They have a wide range of habitat preference like permanent or temporary aquatic bodies, human residential area, forested areas, termite nest, tree hole, under spaces of logs and so forth. Of the nine sp. 8 were confined to Amarabati pond (site-I), 5 were confined to Durgapur Government College campus (site-II) and 7 were confined at Fuljhore (site-III) of Durgapur. Analysis of the collected data on the anuran community of the study area revealed Shannon–Wiener species diversity index minimum (1.312) at site-II and maximum (1.938) at site-III. In contrast Margalef richness index value was minimum (0.627) at site-II and maximum (1.424) at site-III.
AB - Anuran diversity study was conducted for one year between June 2008 and August 2009 at Durgapur, an industrial city of West Bengal, India. Nine species under four families of the Order Anura were found to occur in Durgapur. They have a wide range of habitat preference like permanent or temporary aquatic bodies, human residential area, forested areas, termite nest, tree hole, under spaces of logs and so forth. Of the nine sp. 8 were confined to Amarabati pond (site-I), 5 were confined to Durgapur Government College campus (site-II) and 7 were confined at Fuljhore (site-III) of Durgapur. Analysis of the collected data on the anuran community of the study area revealed Shannon–Wiener species diversity index minimum (1.312) at site-II and maximum (1.938) at site-III. In contrast Margalef richness index value was minimum (0.627) at site-II and maximum (1.424) at site-III.
KW - Anuran diversity
KW - Diversity index
KW - Durgapur
KW - Habitat preference
KW - Industrial city
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U2 - 10.1007/s12595-012-0055-y
DO - 10.1007/s12595-012-0055-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84969432690
SN - 0373-5893
VL - 66
SP - 36
EP - 40
JO - Proceedings of the Zoological Society
JF - Proceedings of the Zoological Society
IS - 1
ER -