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Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and butterflies
wereTaichung City in 40 patches of eight habitat types:
woodland,ark, cemetery, river bank, freeway embankment,
cultivated plotThe patches were delimited by roads, walls,
cleared open areas orl barriers, and ranged in size from 0.08
to 14.7 ha. Ten mammalsspecies occurring per patch ); 46 birds;
10 reptiles and 4ro to four species occurring per patch ); and
29 butterflies were recorded. Animals ( the number of species )
was higher in the least urbanizedte species richness increased
with patch area. Some speciesn patches were synanthropic, such
as Suncus murinus and Musmmals ); Prinia subflava, Prinia
flaviventris and Passer montanusdromus formosanus and
Takydromus stejnegeri ( reptiles, two ''pecies '' ); and two
familes of butterflies, Nymphalidae and Pieridae. More species
ofreptiles and amphibians were retained in two smaller
habitatone larger patch equal to their combined area.
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