A Survey Study on Diversity of Campus Plants and Birds Species at Kang Le Elementary School, Taitung City

• Main Authors: Tzu-Te Wu, 吳子德
• Other Authors: Te-Chuan Su
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15450708874234774773

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 熱帶農業暨國際合作系所 === 100 === A school campus has natural land, plants and animals, which is a compact ecosystem of its own. The plants not only make the campus green and beautiful, but also provide the venue for students to experience the ecology. In natural ecosystems, birds play an important role in maintaining ecological balance, so observation of birds can help understand the relationship between biology and environment. This study aims to investigate four observation areas, including the front yard area, Liquidambar area, playground area and composite ball-sport course at the Kangle Elementary School of Taitung City, and to explore the distribution and diversity of the campus plants and birds. Field observation was adopted to survey the campus plants, and the point-count method was used to survey the bird community. In the end, the biological diversity indexes were conducted to obtain the insight look at the composition of plant and bird species in these four observation areas. The study results show that Kangle Elementary School has 34 plant species in a total of 171 plants, with 16 native species out of 67 plants and 18 exotic species out of 104 plants. For birds, there are 14 species in a total of 662 point-counted birds during November 2010 to July 2011, of which there are 11 native species in 603 counted birds and 3 exotic species in 59 counted birds. Fruit-bearing plants with dense foliage have the most abundant birds observed. From the perspective of bird diversity, the playground has the highest index of bird diversity which is 0.803, while the composite ball-sport course has the lowest of 0.66. In terms of individual bird species, Taiwan Bulbul outnumbers other species in the bird diversity indexes, with an index of 0.156. The more statistical number of the formula increased, the diversity of certain bird was the greatest in different observation.