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Detailed Ecological Assessment Report 2008 – Keenjhar Lake
Figure 26 – Percentage of species recorded over season and against feeding habits
% of species recorded
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44.6
55.3
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53.8
46.1
53.3
46.6
Grainivore Herbivore Insectivore Omnivore
Feeding habit
Summer
Winter
4.2.3 Habitat
Over the fives sites agriculture habitat supported the most species with more than
50% of all records being taken from agriculture habitats followed by sandy
habitats (23%). The remaining water, tree and open habitats up the outstanding
27%. Figure 27 shows the percentage of species found in each habitat. This
result indicates that agriculture land plays an important role in maintaining the
ecosystem, despite it being a man-e ecosystem. The fact that open land
supported very few small mammal species also suggests that some minimum
vegetative cover is required to support a diversity of small mammals.
% of species found in habitat
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40
30
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Figure 27 – Number of species observed according the habitat
55.1
8.6
8.6
3.4
24.1
Agriculture Water Aboreal
Habitat type
Open land Sandy
4.2.4 Status of small mammals across the survey sites
All the small mammals recorded during the survey were categorized as Common
or of Least Concern. There are no rare, endangered or endemic species though
many parts of the country are data deficient for several species so these
categories are still quite speculative. There was no obvious trend or dominance of
the two categories except in Keti Bunder where species if Less Concern were
more dominant that Common species and vice versa in Keenjhar Lake where
Common species were more dominant. Figure’s 28 and 29 show the results over
site and season.