ArticleScientific reports2019
A paradox of local abundance amidst regional rarity: the value of montane refugia for Persian leopard conservation.
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- Intraspecific interactions in a high-density leopard population.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Spatial capture-recapture with multiple noninvasive marks: An application to camera-trapping data of the European wildcat (Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Understanding decision making in a food-caching predator using hidden Markov models.Movement ecology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The population densities of leopards vary widely across their global range, influenced by prey availability, intraguild competition and human persecution. In Asia, particularly the Middle East and the Caucasus, they generally occur at the lower extreme of densities recorded for the species. Reliable estimates of population density are important for understanding their ecology and planning their conservation. We used a photographic spatial capture-recapture (SCR) methodology incorporating animal movement to estimate density for the endangered Persian leopard Panthera pardus saxicolor in three montane national parks, northeastern Iran. We combined encounter history data arising from images of bilaterally asymmetrical left- and right-sided pelage patterns using a Bayesian spatial partial identity model accommodating multiple "non-invasive" marks. We also investigated the effect of camera trap placement on detection probability. Surprisingly, considering the subspecies' reported low abundance and density based on previous studies, we found relatively high population densities in the three national parks, varying between 3.10 ± SD 1.84 and 8.86 ± SD 3.60 individuals/100 km
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