| Título: | Retrieving Tiger Habitats: Conserving Wildlife Geospatially |
| Autores: |
Suman Sinha; Research Fellow Laxmikant Sharma; Assistant Professor Mahendra Singh Nathawat; Professor & Head |
| Fecha: | 2011-01-18 |
| Publicador: | Applied Remote Sensing |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
Geospatial and geostatistical approach |
| Tema: |
Remote Sensing; Wildlife conservation Geospatial; MCDA; fuzzy AHP; HSI; tiger RS and GIS applications in Forestry and Ecology |
| Descripción: | The dwindling tiger populations and their habitats globally due to natural and anthropogenic causes seems to be a strong deterent for their in situ conservation. Once inhabited by tigers, Sariska Wildlife Reserve, India was not included as one of the 42 ‘source sites’ for tigers, due to the absence of tigers during 2004-05 on the account of commercial poaching. However, Sariska has the potential for sustaining tiger population for being a suitable habitat for them. Geospatial approach for tiger habitat suitability in Sariska has been utilized integrating with Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and fuzzy Analytic Hiearchy Process (AHP) Narrow Trapezoidal techniques for getting better insights into conservation of tigers in spatially determining suitable sites for their habitats and conservation and enumerating the area covered. Habitat suitability index (HSI) is calculated to be 0.882 ± 0.06, based on which a habitat suitability index map for tiger is generated. Results showed an area of 616.77 km2 accounting to 52.1% of the total area under study to be extremely suitable for tiger habitat and relocation. This can help for planning management strategies for the conservation of tigers and hence Sariska could find a respectable place among the ‘source sites’ for tigers. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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