标题：Microhabitat use and abundance estimates of understorey herpetofauna in the highlands of Southern Eastern Ghats, India, with observations on roadkill mortalities
摘要：We examined the synecological community assemblage of herpetofauna in the montane zones (> 900m asl) of four hill ranges in the Southern Eastern Ghats, peninsular India. We found out the microhabitatassociations of herpetofauna by quantifying the frequency of resting substrate (=resourcestate) utilisation of the target taxa in terrestrial, aquatic, semi-fossorial and semi-arboreal strata(trees <5 m height from ground). We, based on a 2000 hr-long (500 hrs. per hill range) visual encountersurvey, estimated the encounter rate of each taxa. Lastly, we comment upon the roadkill mortalitiesof herpetofauna in the study sites and provide an appraisal for conservation.
