Keywords :
Callosciurus,
dry deciduous forest,
Menetes berdmorei,
tropical.
บทคัดย่อ :
Wildfires occur almost every year at the end of the dry season in some dry dipterocarp
forests (or dry deciduous forests) of northeastern Thailand. This study assessed the effects of a wildfire
on the occurrence of variable squirrels (Callosciurus finlaysonii), gray-bellied squirrels (C. caniceps),
and Indochinese ground squirrels (Menetes berdmorei). Route census surveys before and after the
wildfire revealed that the frequency of occurrence of the two tree squirrels (Callosciurus spp.) did not
change, whereas that of the Indochinese ground squirrel decreased. The wildfire burned bushes and
grasses but did not destroy the trees, leaving the food and resting sites for the tree squirrel species
intact. Therefore, wildfires in this area may have no clear effects on tree squirrel species, but negative
ones on ground squirrels. The probable reasons for these findings may be the nature and extent of the
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Kobayashi, S., Placksanoi, J., Taksin, A., Aryuthaka, C. and Izawa, M. (2017). Effect of wildfire on the occurrence of three squirrel species in a dry dipterocarp forest in northeastern Thailand. Mammal Study, 42(4): 259-263. DOI: 10.3106/041.042.0408
