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Methods of Estimating Snow Leopard Abundance
To optimize the conservation strategies of snow leopard, it is necessary to know its distribution within an area and relative abundance in different...
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Snow Leopard in Nepal—A Case Study
The most important habitats for snow leopard in the world are in Nepal and studies on this elusive predator began there much earlier than elsewhere,...
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Conservation importance of the strategic, centrally located snow leopard population in the western Himalayas, India: a genetic perspective
The snow leopard population in Union Territory of Ladakh (UTL), India is at the centre of five out of eight mountain ranges within the species'...
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Distribution, Threats and Conservation of Snow Leopard Throughout the World
In this introductory chapter, we present facts about snow leopard. We start with a general description of snow leopard, its ecology and typical...
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Landscape resistance to gene flow in a snow leopard population from Qilianshan National Park, Gansu, China
ContextThe accurate estimation of landscape resistance to movement is important for ecological understanding and conservation applications. Rigorous...
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Snow Leopard-Human Conflict and Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures
Understanding the dynamics of snow leopard-human conflicts and the perceptions of local people of the threats posed by snow leopards is important for...
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First spatially-explicit density estimate for a snow leopard population in the Altai Mountains
The snow leopard Panthera uncia is an elusive and globally-threatened apex predator occurring in the mountain ranges of central Asia. As with other...
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Characterization of microsatellites in the endangered snow leopard based on the chromosome-level genome
The snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ) is an elusive high-altitude specialist and under substantial threat throughout its range. To characterize...
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Assessment of the Suitability of Particular Areas in Nepal for Snow Leopard Based on MaxEnt Modelling
Habitat suitability models based on particular environmental variables are increasingly being used to predict occurrence of species for wildlife...
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Snow Leopards in Nepal Predator-Prey System on the Top of the World
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is an endangered species, and its population size is steadily declining. The main threats to the snow leopard include...
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Genetic diversity and spatial structures of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) reveal proxies of connectivity across Mongolia and northwestern China
Understanding landscape connectivity and population genetic parameters is imperative for threatened species management. However, such information is...
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Regional Comparison of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) Diet using DNA Metabarcoding
Application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to DNA metabarcoding can greatly increase the understanding of predator–prey dynamics and the...
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Leopard predation on wild Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys
Predation is widely recognized as a powerful selective pressure on primate behavior and ecology, although knowledge of predator–prey relationships...
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Increase in the Abundance of the Amur Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura, Felidae, Carnivora) in the Southern Amur Region
Abstract —The Amur leopard cat ( Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura Elliot 1871) in the southern part of the Russian Far East mainly lives in flat and...
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A Key for Identifying the Prey of Snow Leopard in Nepal Using Features of the Structure of the Hair of Their Prey Present in Their Faeces
Large carnivores like snow leopard are solitary and elusive species, which makes observing their hunting and feeding behaviour difficult. In...
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The timing of breeding and independence for snow leopard females and their cubs
Significant knowledge gaps persist on snow leopard demography and reproductive behavior. From a GPS-collared population in Mongolia, we estimated the...
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Population genetics of the snow leopards (Panthera uncia) from the Western Himalayas, India
The snow leopard ( Panthera uncia ), one of the most threatened felids distributed along the high-altitude mountains in the Himalayas, has experienced...
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Seasonal diet composition of Leopard (Panthera pardus) in and around Kazinag National Park, Kashmir, India
The common leopard ( Panthera pardus ) is known to have a wide dietary spectrum and plays a significant role in maintaining the balance within an...
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Spatially heterogeneous habitat use across distinct biogeographic regions in a wide-ranging predator, the Persian leopard
Large carnivores, despite being sensitive to specific habitat conditions, are able to distribute in a wide range of natural habitats. Such pattern of...
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Semiochemicals from Urine and Hair of Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa Griffith, 1821)
Cat members usually convey messages related to their territorial marking and reproductive behaviour to conspecifics by using auditory, visual and...
