التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
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Are local and traditional ecological knowledge suitable tools for informing the conservation of threatened amphibians in biodiversity hotspots? |
| المؤلفون: |
KANAGAVEL, ARUN, PARVATHY, SETHU, TAPLEY, BENJAMIN, NIRMAL, NITHULA, SELVARAJ, GAYATHRI, RAGHAVAN, RAJEEV, MURRAY, CASSANDRA, OWEN, NISHA, TURVEY, SAMUEL T. |
| المصدر: |
Herpetological Bulletin; Autumn2020, Issue 153, p3-13, 13p |
| مستخلص: |
Globally, amphibians are declining more rapidly than any other vertebrate group. A general shortage of funding for the support of focused scientific studies led us to investigate local and traditional ecological knowledge as an alternative data source for amphibian conservation. In this context, we undertook a questionnaire-based interview survey with forest-dwelling indigenous and non-indigenous communities across the Anamalai Hills, within the southern Western Ghats of India, to gather ecological knowledge on three cryptic and threatened frog species. Our results suggest that local communities possess ecological knowledge of frogs and that the magnitude of this knowledge is influenced by gender, community type, education, and age. Accuracy of local knowledge was primarily influenced by the morphological distinctiveness of the focal species, but cultural association and utilisation were also important factors especially for the enigmatic purple frog Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, which has uses in medicine and amulets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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