Sahyadri Conservation Series 3 ENVIS Technical Report: 20,  February 2012
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Ant Species Composition and Diversity in the Sharavathi River Basin, Central Western Ghats
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Ramachandra T V             Subash Chandran M.D             Joshi N.V.             Ajay Narendra             Ali T.M.
Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Contents

1 Summary 1
2 Introduction
      Biological diversity
      Insect diversity
      Need for indicator taxon		 2-11
3 Ants
      Diversity
      Status
      As Indicators		 4-11
4 Objectives 12
5 Study area 12-14
6 Materials and methods
      Land cover analyses
      Sampling methodology 		14-16
7 Results
      Land cover analyses
      Ant Diversity, Species richness and Abundance
      Community composition
      Along Radians 		17-26
8 Conclusion 26
9 Acknowledgements 26
10 References 27-31

 
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