Diversity of Dragonfly Communities at Two Habitats in Negeri Sembilan
Kuala Pilah and Batu kikir are located in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The changes of flora and fauna community have always been related with the anthropogenic activities. This study was conducted in order to determine the species diversity of dragonfly wit
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Diversity of Dragonfly Communities at Two Habitats in Negeri Sembilan Amira Md. Zaliyati and Syazuani Mohd Shariff
Abstract Kuala Pilah and Batu kikir are located in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The changes of flora and fauna community have always been related with the anthropogenic activities. This study was conducted in order to determine the species diversity of dragonfly within two different habitats in Negeri Sembilan. The sampling was carried out from August 2013 to October 2013 at two habitats comprising of UiTM Forest Reserve (Kuala Pilah) and Kampung Lonek Paddy Field (Batu Kikir). A total of 164 individuals of dragonflies were collected, which comprise of 14 species. For Kuala Pilah, a total of 11 species with 62 individuals were collected while for Batu kikir, a total of 9 species with 102 individuals were collected. Family Libellulidae was the dominant family that indicates 99 % of the total collected followed by one percent of total collected by Family Gomphidae. The highest total number of dragonfly individuals was shown by Potamarcha congener with 52 individuals that indicate 32 % of total collected while the least number of individuals was shown by the species of Orthetrum chrysis, Tholymis tillarga, and Ictinogomphus decoratus with one individual that indicate only one percent, respectively. Thus, there was high species diversity (H′ = 1.9), high species richness (R = 2.423), and high species evenness of dragonfly (E = 0.792) in UiTM Forest Reserve as compared to Kampung Lonek Paddy Field. Keywords Dragonfly
Diversity Negeri Sembilan UiTM Forest Reserve
A. Md. Zaliyati S. Mohd Shariff (&) Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia e-mail: [email protected] A. Md. Zaliyati e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 N.A. Yacob et al. (eds.), Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014), DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0534-3_56
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1 Introduction Dragonflies can be found almost at all places in Earth. According to Kalkman et al. (2008), dragonflies with about 5,680 species form a relatively small insects group where most species are found in the tropics. Research conducted by Orr et al. (2004), about 342 species of Malaysian Odonata fauna are found where 181 of them were dragonflies from five families. In addition, Norma Rashid et al. (2001) claim that there are approximately 293 species of dragonflies found at Sabah, Sarawak, and Brunei while other 226 species are reported from Peninsular Malaysia together with Singapore. Major family of dragonflies found in various ecosystems of Peninsular Malaysia is Libellulidae. Orchithemis pulcherrima and Neurothemis fluctuans are the dominant species of dragonflies found in Malaysia. Population of dragonflies was discovered to be threatened at near 10 % (IUCN 2007). This is due to the anthropogenic threat to the species such as extensive logging of lowland forest on many islands, climate change and
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