Recovery of frog and lizard communities following primary habitat alteration in Mizoram, Northeast India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community recovery following primary habitat alteration can provide tests for various hypotheses in ecology and conservation biology. Prominent among these are questions related to the manner and rate of community assembly after habitat perturbation. Here we use space-for-time substitution to analyse frog and lizard community assembly along two gradients of habitat recovery following slash and burn agriculture (jhum) in Mizoram, Northeast India. One recovery gradient undergoes natural succession to mature tropical rainforest, while the other involves plantation of jhum fallows with teak Tectona grandis monoculture.

Results

Frog and lizard communities accumulated species steadily during natural succession, attaining characteristics similar to those from mature fore

SUBMITTER: Pawar SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC514559 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature