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RAKOTOARISOA Anicet Josue
josue_rakotoarisoa@yahoo.fr
ELSEVIER Biological Conservation
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/biological-conservation
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/biological-
conservation/0006-3207/guide-for-authors
A concise and factual abstract is required (maximum
length of 250 words). The abstract should state briefly the
purpose of the research, the methods used, the principal
results and major conclusions. Please try to keep each
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Madagascar is home of many biodiversity and most of
them are endemic to the island. Herpetofauna combining
two classes of vertebrates such as amphibians and
reptiles. They were considered as high diversity with more
than 350 described species for each class. Species in
reptiles group is more specialists in terms of habitat
selection as they dependent especially to the eastern
rainforest. Habitat loss by swidden agriculture practice and
charcoal production is the main threat in this country.
Forest regeneration is very difficult because people
continue to use lands for crops until its becoming infertile.
We conducted research impact of land use change on
biodiversity considering amphibians and reptiles around
the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ), one of the
biggest remaining corridors in the eastern of Madagascar.
This study took account of four habitats from forest to
degraded land and reforested land. The mains goal of this

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study is to compare species diversity and abundance in
objectives to identify where we should focus on
conservation in the future. Three standard methods for
herpetofauna inventory were used for each land use. Forty
four sites were visited and 152 species of amphibian and
reptile were inventoried. Closed canopy forest is home of
the most species that we found and the degraded land is
the poorest in terms of species richness. Result of this
study indicates also that habitat restoration is very
important. The difference between land uses might be the
result of the change on microclimate which affect species
distribution.
Concise and informative, yet not overly general. If
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Impact of land use change on herpetofauna community
composition in Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ),
Eastern Madagascar