An Oil Palm Landscape

an oil palm landscape

Inda D. Solina1, Wilson Novarino2, Rizaldi1 and Anthony J. Giordano3

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

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