Sara Balouch

• Deakin University

Agriculture is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide, but knowledge of how agriculture modifies animal movement, which is crucial for survival, is limited. Here, we examined the effect of landscape composition on the movements of the oriental garden lizard Calotes versicolor in agricultural landscapes of north‐central Pakistan. We r...

Aim The aim was to determine how reptile populations respond to anthropogenic habitat modification and determine whether species traits and environmental factors influence such responses. Location Global. Time period 1981–2018. Major taxa studied Squamata. Methods We compiled a database of 56 studies reporting how habitat modification affects r...

Proliferation of redundant terms in ecology and conservation slows progress and creates confusion. ‘Countryside biogeography’ has been promoted as a new framework for conservation in production landscapes, so may offer a replacement for other concepts used by landscape ecologists. We conducted a systematic review to assess whether the 'countryside...

We studied squamate diversity in 5 different croplands (wheat, sorghum, millet, maize and groundnut) of district Chakwal, North Punjab, Pakistan, in February and September, 2013, using area-constrained searches for squamates and line intercept method for vegetation. We recorded 11 squamate species (6 lizards; 5 snakes). Based on diversity index val...

The quantification of anuran abundance and habitat provides valuable baseline data for future monitoring in areas of planned or anticipated human activities. We carried out the present study to see if anuran abundance is associated with habitat variables (water quality, gravel size and vegetation) in Rawalpindi/Islamabad Area, Pakistan. We used are...

Despite low anuran diversity, Pakistan possesses few endemic anuran species which merit researcher's attention. Nanorana vicina (Paa vicina) is one of the least studied Pakistani anuran, since its first report and description in 1872, it has never been collected from its type locality. This species is believed to occur in northern Pakistan and nort...

The amphibian and reptilian species are considered excellent indicators of the relative amounts of microhabitats in any ecosystem, and features such as lotic water, permanent & temporary lentic water, rock & litter/debris vegetation, live vegetation, dead vegetation, plant species, and soil are important determinants of herpetofaunal abundance. The...

Despite low anuran diversity, Pakistan possesses few endemic anuran species which merit researcher's attention. Nanorana vicina (Paa vicina) is one of the least studied Pakistani anuran, since its first report and description in 1872, it has never been collected from its type locality. This species is believed to occur in northern Pakistan and nort...

Amphibians and reptiles are the most neglected and least studied wildlife groups in Pakistan. The present study was conducted in the selected areas of districts Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Chakwal, North Punjab, Pakistan, to obtain data on herpetofaunal species richness and abundance from February, 2010 to January, 2011 using area-constrained searche...