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Table 1 Niche breadth

From: Niche breadth and overlap of spotted deer and domestic cattle with swamp deer in tropical region of Nepal

Habitat types

Number of plots in which species signs occurred

Spotted deer

Swamp deer

Domestic cattle

Closed Shorea forest

11

0

4

Open Shorea forest

13

1

9

Riverine forest

14

1

2

Short grassland

10

3

4

Tall grassland

13

4

0

Grassland after fire

8

12

0

Grassland in floodplains

7

2

5

Total

76

23

24

Levin's Niche Breadth

6.65

3.02

4.05

Standardized Levin’s Niche breadth

0.94

0.33

0.50

  1. This table shows the number of plots in which the focused species signs were found in different habitats present in SNP and the calculated niche breath. Spotted deer had the highest niche breadth