Description
This dataset contains animal roadkill occurrence data gathered between 2011 and 2013 from the Valparai Plateau and Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India, by researchers of the Nature Conservation Foundation, India. The dataset corresponds to the following publication: Jeganathan, P., Mudappa, D., Kumar, M. A., and Raman, T. R. S. 2018. Seasonal variation in wildlife roadkills in plantations and tropical rainforest in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India. Current Science 114(3): 619-626. DOI: 10.18520/cs/v114/i03/619-626
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 229 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Jeganathan P, Mudappa D, Kumar M A, Raman T R S (2022): Wildlife roadkill occurrence data from plantations and tropical rainforest in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India. v1.1. Nature Conservation Foundation. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=roadkills-anamalais-2011-13-ncfindia&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Conservation Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4c627c3e-5c70-4874-9c03-e8de46e4a9c3. Nature Conservation Foundation publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; tropical rainforest; plantations; Anamalai Hills; animal roadkill; linear infrastructure intrusions; highways; road ecology; animal-vehicle collisions
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Data from: Seasonal variation in wildlife roadkills in plantations and tropical rainforest in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049090 UTF-8 CSV |
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Geographic Coverage
Location/Study Area: Valparai Plateau, Tamil Nadu, India; Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India Road routes: 11 road routes as described in Jeganathan et al. (2018); geographical track (kml) files of roads available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049090
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [10.238, 76.8], North East [10.526, 77] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Animals, mainly terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates recorded as roadkill
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2011-06-01 / 2013-05-31 |
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Project Data
Our research and restoration programme focuses on the region’s unique, biologically diverse tropical rainforests in the Western Ghats, with a specific focus on the Anamalai Hills.
| Title | Tropical Rainforest Research and Ecological Restoration in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India |
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| Identifier | ncf-arrp |
| Funding | Various |
| Study Area Description | The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), Tamil Nadu, India (core zone: 958 km², 10.2160N, 76.8160E – 10.5660N, 77.4160E) is a protected area in the Western Ghats. The adjoining Valparai Plateau (220 km², 10.250N, 76.8660E – 10.3660N, 76.9830E) in the Anamalai Hills is a landscape dominated by tea and coffee plantations with about 45 embedded rainforest fragments ranging in area from 1 ha to over 300 ha. |
| Design Description | From (Jeganathan et al. 2018): This study was carried out along the Pollachi–Valparai highway (Tamil Nadu State Highway 78), and on roads in other areas of Valparai plateau, some of which were improved in recent times (since 2008). These roads pass through monoculture plantations and rainforest fragments in the plateau and through moist and deciduous forests of ATR. As these include an arterial highway and roads connecting certain tourist spots, they are the most intensively used and hence were chosen for this study. Roadkill surveys were carried out within an elevation range of 328–1462 m above mean sea level (msl) in the study area. Eleven road transects of 3.7–12.9 km length (total length = 80.2 km, average = 7.2 km) were surveyed during monsoon and summer. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Surveys were conducted on foot between 0600 h and 0800 h. Of the eleven transects surveyed, seven road transects passed through ATR and the remaining four passed through rainforest fragments, tea, coffee and eucalyptus plantations on the Valparai plateau. For roadkills found, the species, the number of individuals and the roadside habitat were noted, and their locations were recorded using a hand-held Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx device. To avoid duplicate counts on subsequent visits, roadkills were removed from the road (and placed outside the road verge) after noting the details. Supplementary observations and roadkill incidents in the study area were also recorded opportunistically. At the location of each roadkill, the adjoining habitat on either side of the road was noted. Habitats were broadly classified as forest and monoculture plantations (tea, coffee, eucalyptus). As two different habitats sometimes occurred on either side of the road at habitat edges, the following combinations of mixed habitats were also categorized: forest-tea, forest-coffee and eucalyptus-tea.
| Study Extent | Eleven road transects of 3.7–12.9 km length (total length = 80.2 km, average = 7.2 km) were surveyed during monsoon and summer. Overall, these transects were walked 117 times (9–13 repeats each) from June to December 2011 (monsoon) and 87 times (7–8 repeats each) from March to June 2012 (summer). Transects walked in June 2012 prior to the onset of monsoon were pooled with summer for analysis. The total length surveyed during the study period was 1473.4 km (monsoon = 838.5 km, summer = 634.9 km). |
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| Quality Control | Roadkill specimens were not collected and only photographs were taken to aid in identification. Roadkills were identified to species level in case of mammals and birds. Amphibian and reptile roadkills were often in a badly damaged state, especially during monsoon, making it difficult to identify them even up to genus level. Such records were categorized up to the group level or left unidentified. Invertebrates were recorded up to phylum level or sub-phylum level. |
Method step description:
- The dataset with road tracks were uploaded to Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049090). CSV files for upload to GBIF were prepared using R code to match columns to Darwin Core terms.
Bibliographic Citations
- P. Jeganathan, Divya Mudappa, M. Ananda Kumar, & T. R. Shankar Raman. (2022). Data from: Seasonal variation in wildlife roadkills in plantations and tropical rainforest in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049654 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049090
- Jeganathan, P., Mudappa, D., Kumar, M. A., and Raman, T. R. S. 2018. Seasonal variation in wildlife roadkills in plantations and tropical rainforest in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India. Current Science 114(3): 619-626. DOI: 10.18520/cs/v114/i03/619-626 https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v114/i03/619-626
Additional Metadata
Dataset also available on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7049090
| Alternative Identifiers | 4c627c3e-5c70-4874-9c03-e8de46e4a9c3 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=roadkills-anamalais-2011-13-ncfindia |