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Anmerkung: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Role of Wildlife Protected Areas in India -- 1.1 Global Context of Biodiversity Loss -- 1.1.1 General Background and Literature Review -- 1.1.2 Challenges Posed by Human Impacts on Biodiversity in Asia -- 1.1.3 Specific Drivers of Biodiversity Loss -- 1.1.3.1 Habitat Loss -- 1.1.3.2 Habitat Fragmentation -- 1.1.3.3 Habitat Degradation -- 1.1.3.4 Hunting -- 1.1.3.5 Impacts of Other Extractive Activities -- 1.2 Biodiversity Conservation: Alternative Approaches -- 1.2.1 Global Scenario -- 1.2.2 The Conservation Scenario in India -- 1.2.2.1 Protected Areas in India: National Parks and Sanctuaries -- 1.2.2.2 Community Conserved Areas -- 1.2.2.3 Biosphere Reserves -- 1.2.3 Patterns of Ownership and Management of Protected Areas -- 1.2.4 Management of Protected Areas in the Indian Context -- 1.2.5 Integrating Surveys, Monitoring and Management Objectives -- Chapter 2: Study Species, Habitats and Hypotheses -- 2.1 Study Area -- 2.1.1 Geographic Location, Topography and Soils -- 2.1.2 Vegetation of the Study Area -- 2.1.3 Wildlife and Biodiversity in the Study Area -- 2.1.4 Human Impacts on Wildlife and Habitats -- 2.1.5 Forest Management History -- 2.1.6 Present Management -- 2.1.7 Delineation of Management Regimes -- 2.2 Research Hypotheses and Objectives -- 2.2.1 Objectives -- 2.2.2 Target Biodiversity Components -- Chapter 3: Survey Design, Field and Analytical Methods -- 3.1 The Overall Study Design -- 3.2 Assessment of the Habitat Similarity -- 3.3 Field Survey Methods -- 3.3.1 Overall Approach to Field Surveys -- 3.3.2 Plants -- 3.3.3 Bird Species and Guilds (Non-gallinaceous) -- 3.3.4 Mammals and Gallinaceous Birds -- 3.3.5 Human Disturbances and Impacts -- 3.4 Analytical Methods -- 3.4.1 Assessing Species Richness -- 3.4.1.1 Assessment of Species Richness in Plants. , 3.4.1.2 Assessment of Species Richness in Birds -- 3.4.1.3 Assessment of Species Richness in Mammals -- 3.4.2 Assessing Species Abundance -- 3.4.2.1 Assessment of Species Abundance in Plants: Stand Density and Basal Area -- 3.4.2.2 Assessment of Species Abundance in Birds: Line-Transect and Point-Transect Surveys -- 3.4.2.3 Assessment of Species Abundance in Mammals and Gallinaceous Birds: Line-Transect Surveys -- 3.4.3 Assessing Human Impacts and Disturbance -- 3.4.4 Comparisons of Attributes Across Management and Access Regimes -- 3.4.4.1 Box-and-Whisker Plots -- 3.4.4.2 Scatter Plots and Regressions -- 3.4.4.3 Partial Mantel Tests -- Chapter 4: Results and Findings -- 4.1 Habitat Similarity -- 4.1.1 Assessments of Habitat Similarity -- 4.2 Assessments of Status of Biodiversity Components -- 4.2.1 Plant Species Richness -- 4.2.2 Bird Species Richness -- 4.2.3 Mammal Species Richness -- 4.2.4 Abundances of Plant Species -- 4.2.5 Abundances of Bird Species -- 4.2.6 Abundances of Mammalian Species -- 4.3 Human Disturbance Levels -- 4.4 Comparison of Status of Biodiversity Components Across Management Regimes -- 4.4.1 Plants -- 4.4.2 Birds -- 4.4.3 Mammals -- 4.4.4 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index -- 4.4.5 Human Disturbance Index -- 4.5 Impact of Habitat Variables and Human Disturbance Factors on the Status of Biodiversity Components -- 4.5.1 Plants -- 4.5.2 Birds -- 4.5.3 Mammals -- 4.5.4 Human Disturbance Impacts on Biodiversity After Controlling for Habitat -- Chapter 5: Synthesis, Discussion and Conclusions -- 5.1 General Patterns of Effect of Human Disturbances on Biodiversity -- 5.2 Cumulative Potential Future Impacts -- 5.3 Implications for Management of Forests and Wildlife -- 5.4 Monitoring Biodiversity Reliably -- 5.5 Civil Society Participation in Conservation Monitoring -- 5.6 Broader Policy Implications of the Study -- Appendices. , Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography.

Anmerkung: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- 1: Introduction: The Conservation Issue -- 1.1 General Overview -- 1.2 Ungulates in South and Southeast Asia -- 1.3 Wild Ungulates in India -- 1.4 Environmental Drivers of Ungulate Distribution and Abundance -- 1.4.1 Challenges of Ungulate Monitoring at Varying Spatial Scales -- 1.4.2 Key Factors Influencing Ungulate Distribution and Abundance -- 1.4.3 Methodological Challenges -- 1.5 Study Goal and Specific Objectives -- 1.6 Study Region, Landscape and Habitats -- 1.6.1 Nagarahole National Park -- 1.6.2 Bandipur National Park -- 1.7 Study Species -- 1.7.1 Wild Pig (Sus scrofa) -- 1.7.2 Red Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) -- 1.7.3 Chital (Axis axis) -- 1.7.4 Sambar (Rusa unicolor) -- 1.7.5 Gaur (Bos frontalis) -- 1.8 Ecological Comparisons -- 1.9 Organization of the Monograph -- References -- 2: Development of Hierarchical Spatial Models for Assessing Ungulate Abundance and Habitat Relationships -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Modeling Philosophy -- 2.2.1 Overview of Distance Sampling and Line Transect Sampling -- 2.2.2 Model-Based Inferential Approaches -- 2.2.3 Hierarchical Models -- 2.3 Model Development -- 2.3.1 Motives and Considerations -- 2.3.2 Model Formulation -- 2.3.3 Model Notations -- 2.3.4 Observation Model -- 2.3.4.1 Modeling Distance Effects on Detectability -- 2.3.4.2 Modeling the Effects of Cluster Size on Detectability -- 2.3.4.3 Modeling Detection Probability as a Function of Both Distance and Cluster Size -- 2.3.5 Abundance (Process) Model -- 2.3.6 Modeling Effects of Site-Level Covariates -- 2.3.7 Modeling Effects of Landscape-Level Covariates -- 2.3.8 Modeling Spatial Effects -- 2.3.9 Modeling the Variation in Sampling Efforts. , 2.3.10 Modeling the Effects of Spatial Misalignment -- 2.4 Bayesian Inference -- 2.5 Bayesian Variable Selection -- 2.6 Example of Application of the Hierarchical Spatial Model -- 2.6.1 Line Transect Sampling Data on Chital Populations -- 2.7 Results -- 2.7.1 Detection Function -- 2.7.2 Chital Abundance -- 2.7.3 Effects of Predictor Variables on Abundance -- 2.7.4 Relative Importance of Predictor Variables -- 2.8 Discussion -- Appendix 2.1 -- Example Data Structure of the Four Input Files Used for the Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Modeling -- Appendix 2.2 -- R Script for Fitting the Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Model -- References -- 3: Model-Based Assessment of Ungulate-Habitat Relationships -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Field Survey Data on Ungulate Species -- 3.3 Predictors of Ungulate Abundance -- 3.3.1 Identification of Ecological and Management Covariates -- 3.3.2 Covariates Influencing Ungulate Abundance -- 3.3.2.1 Site-Level Covariates -- 3.3.2.2 Landscape-Level Covariates -- 3.4 Data Analyses -- 3.5 Results -- 3.5.1 Encounter Rate, Detectability and Cluster Size of Ungulate Species -- 3.5.2 Density and Abundance of Ungulate Species -- 3.5.3 Predictors of Ungulate Species Abundance -- 3.5.4 Relative Importance of Predictors of Abundance -- 3.6 Discussion -- 3.6.1 Ungulate Abundance: Implications for Management -- 3.6.2 Predictors of Ungulate Abundance -- 3.6.3 Relative Importance of Predictors of Abundance -- Appendix 3.1 -- List of Plants Encountered in Vegetation Plots Laid Along Transects in the Nagarahole-Bandipur Study Landscape -- Appendix 3.2 -- Description of Human Activity Signs Encountered Along Line Transects During the Human Impact Survey in the Nagarahole-Bandipur Study Landscape and Their Metrics of Field-Measure -- Appendix 3.3. , Summary of the Posterior Distributions of Detection and Abundance Parameters Together with Their Monte Carlo Standard Errors (MCse) and Posterior Density Plots for Each of the Study Species in the Nagarahole-Bandipur Landscape, India -- Wild Pig -- Muntjac -- Chital -- Sambar -- Gaur -- References -- 4: Assessing Threats to Ungulates and Management Responses -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Methods -- 4.2.1 Spatial Distribution of Proximate Threats -- 4.2.2 Assessment of Management Actions -- 4.3 Results -- 4.3.1 Spatial Distribution of Proximate Threats -- 4.3.2 Assessment of Management Actions -- 4.4 Discussion -- 4.4.1 Assessment of Threats -- 4.4.2 Assessment of Management Actions -- References -- 5: Conservation of Tropical Forest Ungulates: The Way Forward -- 5.1 The Conservation Context -- 5.2 The Conservation Issue -- 5.3 Utility of Hierarchical Models as a General Methodological Tool -- 5.4 Summary Review of Findings -- 5.5 Conservation Implications -- 5.6 Conservation of Tropical Forest Ungulates: The Way Forward -- References.

Anmerkung: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors -- Contributors -- Section I An Overview of Metagenomics -- 1 Principles and Analysis of Metagenomics Data -- Section II Metagenomics Tools to Access Microbial Diversity -- 2 Metagenomic Tools for Taxonomic and Functional Annotation -- Section III Metagenomics of Extreme Environments -- 3 Metagenomic Insights into the Microbial Communities of Desert Ecosystems -- 4 Metagenomic Approaches for Exploration of Halophile Prokaryotes in Coastal Areas -- 5 Metagenome Assembly for Gut Microbial Functional Diversity Associated with Xenobiotic Degradation -- Section IV Metagenomics of Various Ecotypes -- 6 Earthworm Gut Microbiome: The Uncharted Microbiome -- 7 Metagenomics of Pollen-Borne Microbes and Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee -- 8 Viral Metagenomics -- 9 Freshwater Metagenomics: Overall Scenario -- Section V Applications -- 10 Microbiomes in the Rice Ecosystem -- 11 Ecosystem Services of Microbes -- 12 Commercial Exploitation of Microbial Communal Services to Enrich Plant Microbiome -- Index.