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Population Assessment of the Endangered Nilgiri Tahr Nilgiritragus Hylocrius in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Using the Double-Observer Survey Method Population assessment of the Endangered Nilgiri tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, using the double-observer survey method K ULBHUSHANSINGH R AMESH S URYAWANSHI,DIVYA M UDAPPA,MUNIB K HANYARI T. R. SHANKAR R AMAN,DEVIKA R ATHORE,M.ANANDA K UMAR and J ENIS P ATEL Abstract The Nilgiri tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius is an En- Introduction dangered species of mountain ungulate endemic to the Western Ghats of India, a biodiversity hotspot. Habitat ild ungulates play an important role in maintain- fragmentation, hunting and a restricted range are the major Wing ecosystems by influencing vegetation structure, threats to this species. Although several surveys have as- plant species composition and nutrient cycling (Augustine sessed the species’ status, a population estimate based on a & McNaughton, ; Bagchi & Ritchie, ). They are scientifically robust method is needed. We used the double- also critical determinants of predator population density observer method to estimate the population of the Nilgiri (Carbone & Gittleman, ). Conservation of any species tahr in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, a protected area in requires effective population monitoring (Yoccoz et al., the Western Ghats. We walked km of transects across ); understanding populations trends is thus crucial the Reserve, covering grassland blocks (i.e. clusters of for implementing or assessing the impact of conservation ’ montane grasslands that were relatively separate from actions. National and global assessments of species extinc- each other). We counted a minimum of individuals in tion risk, such as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, groups, and estimated the tahr population in the study rely on robust assessments of population sizes and trends. area to be individuals (%CI–)in groups. The Nilgiri tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius is a mountain The male:female ratio was . and the young:female ratio ungulate endemic to the Western Ghats in India. It is cate- was .. Comparing our estimate with previous surveys gorized as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, based on suggests that the Nilgiri tahr population in Anamalai criterion C a(i) (Alempath & Rice, ), and is listed in Tiger Reserve is stable. We found the double-observer sur- Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act vey method to be appropriate for population estimation (Parliament of India, ). The global population is esti- – and long-term monitoring of this species, and make recom- mated to be , , individuals (Daniels et al., ; mendations for improved field protocols to facilitate the Predit et al., ). However, population estimates based implementation of the method in the tropical mountains of on robust methods are scanty and our knowledge of the ’ the Western Ghats. Our findings suggest that the Reserve species status and distribution remains limited. The Nilgiri harbours –% of the global population of the Nilgiri tahr is restricted to montane grasslands and has a patchy tahr, highlighting the area’s importance for the conserva- distribution in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The ’ , tion of this species. species range covers % of the Western Ghats (Grubb, ). The Nilgiri tahr is primarily threatened by habitat Keywords Capture–recapture, double observer method, loss and disturbance caused by invasive species, and in endemic, Nilgiri tahr, Nilgiritragus hylocrius, mountain some sites by livestock grazing, poaching and fragmenta- ungulate, population estimation, Western Ghats tion of the landscape (Daniels et al., ). Being a montane grassland specialist, the species is also particularly vul- nerable to climate change as its habitat is highly climate- dependent (Sony et al., ). Surveys of the Nilgiri tahr KULBHUSHANSINGH RAMESH SURYAWANSHI* (Corresponding author, orcid.org/ in the Anamalai Hills have been conducted by Davidar 0000-0003-1155-0748), DIVYA MUDAPPA ( orcid.org/0000-0001-9708-4826), (, ), Rice (), Mishra & Johnsingh (), MUNIB KHANYARI† ( orcid.org/0000-0003-4624-5073), T. R. SHANKAR RAMAN ( orcid.org/0000-0002-1347-3953), DEVIKA RATHORE ( orcid.org/0000- Kumar et al. () and Predit et al. (), with estimates 0003-2938-0003), M. ANANDA KUMAR ( orcid.org/0000-0001-7094-1314) of – individuals. The Anamalai Hills are one of the and JENIS PATEL ( orcid.org/0000-0003-2280-4141) Nature Conservation Foundation, 1311, ‘Amritha’, 12th A Main, Vijayanagar 1st Stage, Mysore strongholds of the species and the Anamalai Tiger Reserve 570017, India. E-mail [email protected] in Tamil Nadu is estimated to have the second highest num- *Also at: Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, USA ber of Nilgiri tahrs after Eravikulam National Park in Kerala. † Also at: Interdisciplinary Center for Conservation Sciences, University of Most previous surveys have estimated the tahr population Oxford, Oxford, UK and School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK using a total count method. Although it may be possible Received November . Revision requested January . to conduct a total count of a population across a small Accepted May . area, it is difficult to accurately count all individuals when Oryx, Page 1 of 7 © 2020 Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605319000553 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 81.109.117.166, on 18 Mar 2020 at 17:37:24, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319000553 2 K. R. Suryawanshi et al. FIG. 1 The study area in India, showing the peaks in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve surveyed for the Nilgiri tahr Nilgiritragus hylocrius. surveying large areas. In addition, total counts do not allow et al., ; Tumursukh et al., ; Suryawanshi et al., for an estimation of errors that enables statistical compari- ). The need to use a statically robust method to estimate sons over time (Yoccoz et al., ). Standard methods used the population of the Nilgiri tahr has been recognized in for monitoring ungulates in tropical forests, such as dis- previous surveys (Predit et al., ). The primary goal of tance sampling and dung counts, are not suitable for estimat- our study was to assess the suitability of the double-observer ing the Nilgiri tahr population as surveyors often cannot walk survey method for estimating the population in the Ana- straight lines because of the complex terrain, and sighting malai Tiger Reserve. distances can be long and difficult to estimate accurately in the species’ mountainous habitat (Singh & Milner-Gulland, ; Suryawanshi et al., ). A recent study identified a Study area panel of genetic microsatellite markers that can be used to identify individual tahrs, enabling population estimates Anamalai Tiger Reserve is located in Coimbatore and based on a capture–recapture framework (Luis et al., ). Tiruppur districts of Tamil Nadu state, India, and covers However, genetic methods are too expensive and time-con- , km , including the core and buffer area (Fig. ). Ta- suming for regular monitoring of animal populations. naka Malai is the highest peak in the Reserve, at , m. Suryawanshi et al. () standardized the double- The Reserve has six ranges: Pollachi, Valparai, Ulandy, observer survey method (Forsyth & Hickling, )to Amaravathy, Udumalpet and Manamboli. Part of the estimate populations of mountain ungulates in the Reserve has been gazetted as a National Park, including Himalayas. Since then, the method has been applied suc- Grass Hills (, ha) in Valparai Range and Manjampatty cessfully to estimate the populations of the blue sheep (, ha) in Amaravathy Range, which contain much of Pseudois nayaur, ibex Capra ibex, argali Ovis ammon, the montane grasslands within the Reserve. The Reserve is urial Ovis vignei and markhor Capra falconeri (Michel bordered by Eravikulam National Park, Chinnar Wildlife Oryx, Page 2 of 7 © 2020 Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605319000553 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 81.109.117.166, on 18 Mar 2020 at 17:37:24, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319000553 Population assessment of the Nilgiri tahr 3 Sanctuary and Kurinjimala Wildlife Sanctuary in the south We identified potential sites of Nilgiri tahr occurrence and Parambikulam Tiger Reserve in the west (Fig. ). from published studies (Kumar et al., ) and reports by The altitude varies from m in the Amaravathy and knowledgeable forest staff and researchers. For practical Udumalpet forest ranges to , m in the Grass Hills reasons, we divided each of the Reserve’s ranges into blocks; National Park region in Valparai Range. Annual rainfall is i.e. clusters of montane grasslands that were relatively sep- c. mm in the eastern dry rain shadow region and arate from each other. The shape and size of these blocks c. , mm in the Reserve’s wetter western ranges. The depended on the terrain and the logistics of accessing Reserve receives both south-west and north-east monsoons, and surveying the area. Block size varied from – km to with the former predominant in the western, and the latter c. km , and we divided large contiguous habitats such in the eastern part. The terrain is rugged, with diverse vege- as the Grass Hills National Park (Fig. ) into several blocks. tation types ranging from tropical dry thorn forest in the We calculated the size of the total study area as the sum of foothills (, m), tropical dry and moist deciduous for- all individual blocks, which we mapped using QGIS .. ests and tropical wet
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