Study of Species Richness and Structure Community of Herpetofauna on Kondang Merak Forest, Malang, Indonesia

Ahmad Muammar Kadafi, M. Fathoni, Muhammad Alif Fauzi, Richo Firmansyah, Nia Kurniawan

2019

Abstract

Kondang Merak Forest was known for its tourism destination, despite this area being the only coastal protected forest in Malang. Because of tourism demand, several anthropogenic activities were recorded and threatening the ecological balances of the forest including herpetofauna in it. Hence, we provide the information on the herpetofauna diversity completed with the habitat type on the Kondang Merak forest. A survey was conducted from November 2018 to June 2019 on each 6 different site points according to a specific habitat. We analyzed the data using the importance value index and Jaccard similarity to better known the herpetofauna community structure. A total of 38 species of herpetofauna were recorded consists of 8 amphibians (Anura), 15 lizards (Sauria), and 15 snakes (Serpentes) species. Based on the habitat type, we concluded that the distribution pattern and herpetofauna composition may be reflected by the biological adaptation, environmental carrying capacity, and different landscape vegetation such as coastal area, stream, temporary pond, secondary forest and monoculture plantation. These findings can be used as baseline data for further study on genetic study and management strategies on the Kondang Merak forest.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kadafi A., Fathoni M., Fauzi M., Firmansyah R. and Kurniawan N. (2019). Study of Species Richness and Structure Community of Herpetofauna on Kondang Merak Forest, Malang, Indonesia.In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Molecular Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering - Volume 1: ICAMBBE, ISBN 978-989-758-483-1, pages 89-95. DOI: 10.5220/0009586100890095

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icambbe19,
author={Ahmad Muammar Kadafi and M. Fathoni and Muhammad Alif Fauzi and Richo Firmansyah and Nia Kurniawan},
title={Study of Species Richness and Structure Community of Herpetofauna on Kondang Merak Forest, Malang, Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Molecular Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering - Volume 1: ICAMBBE,},
year={2019},
pages={89-95},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009586100890095},
isbn={978-989-758-483-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Molecular Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering - Volume 1: ICAMBBE,
TI - Study of Species Richness and Structure Community of Herpetofauna on Kondang Merak Forest, Malang, Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-483-1
AU - Kadafi A.
AU - Fathoni M.
AU - Fauzi M.
AU - Firmansyah R.
AU - Kurniawan N.
PY - 2019
SP - 89
EP - 95
DO - 10.5220/0009586100890095