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Biodiversity Surveys
ICTE
N-543 SBS Bldg.
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
11794-4364
631.632.9440
Fax: 631.632.7692
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Biodiversity Surveys
ICTE is working to increase our understanding of the diversity
of habitats, animals, and plants within Madagascar's Southeastern
rainforest by conducting surveys of unexplored areas in Madagascar.
Information from these surveys is then shared with Madagascar's
government agencies (including the National Parks Service, the
Department of Water and Forests, and the National Office of the
Environment) and Malagasy and international conservation organizations
that are working in the area. Since 2000, ICTE has completed surveys
of an unprotected forest corridor north of Ranomafana, surveys
within and around Ranomafana National Park, and surveys in the
protected areas of Midongy du Sud, Kalambatritra and Marojejy.
Our continued survey efforts allow us to monitor forest boundaries,
forest quality, and forest usage patterns and collect data on
animal presence and de3nsities within forest areas. For example,
the known range of the endangered red owl, Tyto soumagnei,
was extended by 500 km when this species was located during a
survey of the forest of Kalambatritra. Data from our surveys have
been published in Lemur News (the ICUN XX) and Ibis (2002, 144:
680-683).
Biodiversity Surveys are included in the following projects:
Drug Discovery and Biodiversity Conservation
in Madagascar
Integrating the Dynamics of Human
Resource Use and Their Effects on Rainforests in Madagascar
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