an oil palm landscape

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

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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 20^th August, 2018

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species perceive roads, monoculture and open areas as barriers to their movement and dispersal Asia are heavily dependent on intact tropical

Neofelis diardi Pardofelis marmorata

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

landscape to small carnivores, as well as what role

and competition in altered landscapes, as well

Study Area km

Camera trapping

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For ambiguous and

relationship between species richness and various

Figure 1

Figure 2

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habitat characteristics and covariates, including relative sapling and tree density, canopy cover,

Habitat characteristics

location constituted a central point encompassed

Paradoxurus hermaphroditus

were the only species detected in all three habitat

Arctictis binturong

Hemigalus derbyanus not detected in Arctogalidia trivirgata

civet were the only two species recorded in the

Activity patterns

marten, this species is known to be predominantly

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

Table 1. The species, English name and local name, number of independent photos, habitat and IUCN status for the small

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We did not record common palm civet between

is widely regarded as crepuscular and nocturnal

poorly understood and may vary between areas,

as publications about diurnal activity and dispersal

rodents and other small vertebrates, insects and

that common palm civets are routinely active

palm civets are known to be more terrestrial than

Figure 3.

Sumatra.

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since the ongoing landuse change may impact the

Habitat assessment

in tree density or canopy cover between the study habitats with respect to quantitative microhabitat

macro habitat variables, including relative density

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 2

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 3

forest, forest fragment and riparian forest.

Std. Error z value P value

8.81 -2.615 0.00891 **

R. Density sapling 8.95 1.884 0.05955 .

Canopy Cover 0.00992 **

0.0128 3.014 0.00258 **

Table 4.

features on the number of species detected

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that binturong were predominantly active during

the suggestion that this species is more at home in species probably impacted the relatively large

plantations and where the edge to interior ratio was higher, possibly due to a greater abundance

Greater canopy closure values were associated with

likely because these species had become isolated in

negatively impacted small carnivore diversity and activity, which has led to the almost complete

Martes

Journal of Applied Statistics 25(2)

Bird Study 46(1)

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Small Carnivore Conservation 29

Viverra tangalunga

Mammal Study 34

species richness and composition in three small Mammal Study 39

Diplogale hosei Small Carnivore Conservation 44

Arctogalidia trivirgata

Paguma larvata

Cat News 8

Sarawak Planted Forest, with emphasis on the

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binturong Arctictis binturong throated marten

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Neofelis diardi

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Hemigalus derbyanus

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Ecological Modelling 222

Global Ecology and Conservation 3

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Arctictis binturong

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Hemigalus derbyanus

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Prionailurus bengalensis

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