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An Oil Palm Landscape an oil palm landscape Inda D. Solina1, Wilson Novarino2, Rizaldi1 and Anthony J. Giordano3 1 2 3S.P.E.C.I.E.S., Ventura, California, USA Corresponding author: Inda D. Solina; As of 2010, approximately 55,000km2 species richness at camera-traps, most likely because these species had become isolated in forest surrounded by completely and more plantation st August, 2018. Accepted 20th August, 2018 14 landscape to small carnivores, as well as what role species perceive roads, monoculture and open and competition in altered landscapes, as well areas as barriers to their movement and dispersal Asia are heavily dependent on intact tropical Neofelis diardi Pardofelis marmorata Study Area km Prionailurus bengalensis original standing vegetation along watercourses thereby contribute to species persistence across what degree corridors are important to smaller mammalian carnivores in tropical Asian landscapes, Sumatra, many species may occur sympatrically across large regions and thus occupy the same areas Camera trapping 15 Figure 1 relationship between species richness and various l For ambiguous and Figure 2 16 habitat characteristics and covariates, including relative sapling and tree density, canopy cover, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus were the only species detected in all three habitat Habitat characteristics Arctictis binturong Hemigalus derbyanus not detected in Arctogalidia trivirgata location constituted a central point encompassed civet were the only two species recorded in the Activity patterns marten, this species is known to be predominantly Table 1. The species, English name and local name, number of independent photos, habitat and IUCN status for the small Species Common name Local name #Photos % IUCN Mustelidae Musang leher kuning 1 2.86 F Viverridae Small-toothed palm civet Musang Akar 1 2.86 R Bearcat/Binturong Binturong 1 2.86 F VU Banded palm civet Musang Belang 20 F NT Masked palm civet Musang Galing 1 2.86 CF Common palm civet 20 F,CF,R Malay civet Musang Tenggalong 4 11.43 F Total 35 100 Figure 3. Sumatra. as publications about diurnal activity and dispersal We did not record common palm civet between is widely regarded as crepuscular and nocturnal rodents and other small vertebrates, insects and that common palm civets are routinely active poorly understood and may vary between areas, palm civets are known to be more terrestrial than 18 Table 2 Sapling Trees Distance Forest Density R. Density Density R. Density Canopy River(m) KSNP(m) Road(m) Fragmented 0.26 0.20 0.02 0.20 0.82 12405.6 284.49 0.21 0.03 0.14 0.86 401.19 5252.68 199.41 Riparian 0.30 0.19 0.04 0.26 0.85 9454.63 19.00 Table 3 forest, forest fragment and riparian forest. Sapling Trees Density R. Density Density R. Density Canopy Cover X2 5.341 .383 1.426 Df 2 2 2 2 2 Asymp. Sig. .069ns .826ns .490ns .433ns Table 4. features on the number of species detected since the ongoing landuse change may impact the Std. Error z value P value 8.81 -2.615 0.00891 ** Habitat assessment R. Density sapling 8.95 1.884 0.05955 . Canopy Cover 0.00992 ** 0.0128 3.014 0.00258 ** in tree density or canopy cover between the study habitats with respect to quantitative microhabitat macro habitat variables, including relative density 19 that binturong were predominantly active during negatively impacted small carnivore diversity and activity, which has led to the almost complete the suggestion that this species is more at home in species probably impacted the relatively large Martes plantations and where the edge to interior ratio was higher, possibly due to a greater abundance Journal of Applied Statistics 25(2) Greater canopy closure values were associated with likely because these species had become isolated in Bird Study 46(1) 20 Small Carnivore Conservation 29 Cat News 8 Viverra tangalunga Sarawak Planted Forest, with emphasis on the Mammal Study 34 species richness and composition in three small Mammal Study 39 Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29 (10) Diplogale hosei Small Carnivore Conservation 44 Small Carnivore Conservation 43 binturong Arctictis binturong Arctogalidia trivirgata throated marten Wildlife Biology 11(1) Paguma larvata nd Greenhouse Gas 21 Neofelis diardi 33 Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30(4) Hemigalus derbyanus Small Carnivore Conservation 36 Arctictis binturong Journal of Small Carnivore Conservation 16 Mammalogy 92(2) carnivores within oil palm plantations in central Mammal Research 60 Ecological Modelling 222 PlosOne 8 Small Carnivore Conservation 42 8 Prionailurus bengalensis Global Ecology and Conservation 3 Journal of Tropical Ecology 23 Small Carnivore Conservation 51 22 Hemigalus derbyanus Arctictis binturong Journal of Indonesian Natural History. 1(1) Small Carnivore Conservation Prionailurus 42 bengalensis Journal of Indonesian Natural History 1(1) Ecological Applications 25(8) ecological characteristics, spatial and temporal Journal of Zoology 296 23.
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