Malagasy Nature
Volume 3: Biodiversity, exploration, and conservation of the natural habitats associated with the Ambatovy project (2010)
The third volume of Malagasy Nature presents a series of studies undertaken in the Ambatovy forests, near Moramanga. These studies were made within the framework of a research on the biodiversity partially covered forest zones, exposed to the mining by the Ambatovy Project. They were done to support the project conservation program.
Besides the description of the mining project conservation and ecological monitoring programmes, this Volume 3 shows the diverse biological and ecological information on various groups in particular, the invertebrates, the vertebrates, as well as the plants. It also compiles the results of the inventories of a zone near the region of Andasibe which was extensively studied for decades, in particular emphasizing the new discoveries on the flora and the fauna for these last 20 years. The new data presented in this volume show the biological importance of the studied zones. They will form basic information for the ecological and specific changes monitoring within the local biodiversity in time and in space.
- Preface - pdf
- Ambatovy project: Mining in a challenging biodiversity setting in Madagascar - Steven Dickinson & Pierre O. Berner - pdf
- Biological research conducted in the general Andasibe region of Madagascar with emphasis on enumerating the local biotic diversity - Steven M. Goodman - pdf
- Introduction to the early 2009 biological inventories conducted by the Association Vahatra in the Ambatovy-Analamay region - Steven M. Goodman & Achille P. Raselimanana - pdf
- Floristic inventory of the Ambatovy-Analamay mine site and comparison to other sites in Madagascar - Peter B. Phillipson, Porter P. Lowry II, Lalao Andriamahefarivo, Patrice Antilahimena & Christopher Birkinshaw - pdf
- Survey of leaf litter ant species and assessment of invasive ants in the mining sites at Ambatovy, Madagascar - Jean Claude Rakotonirina - pdf
- Watercourse ecological sensitivity classification as a management framework to ameliorate pipeline construction impacts associated with the Ambatovy project - Johannes L. Rall, Hasina Andriamanamihaja, Tsilavina Ravelomanana, Pierre O. Berner & Steven Dickinson - pdf
- The amphibians and reptiles of the Ambatovy-Analamay region - Achille P. Raselimanana - pdf
- The birds of the Ambatovy-Analamay region - Marie Jeanne Raherilalao - pdf
- The non-volant and non-primate mammals of the Ambatovy-Analamay forest - Voahangy Soarimalala & Martin Raheriarisena - pdf
- The lemurs of the Ambatovy-Analamay region - José M. Ralison - pdf
- The Ambatovy lemur population spatial monitoring program: Summary of primary objectives and methods - Vanessa Mass, Gilbert Rakotondratsimba & Steven Dickinson - pdf
- Index - pdf
- Notes aux contributeurs dans Malagasy Nature - pdf
- Format for contributions to Malagasy Nature - pdf
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