Seasonal space use and habitat selection of GPS collared snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in the Mongolian Altai range.

ABSTRACT: Although the home range and habitat selection of animal species is among the fundamental pieces of biological information collected by research projects during recent decades, published information on the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) home range is limited. The Altai Mountains of central Asia contain some of the largest and most important remaining conservation landscapes for snow leopards globally, but there is a limited understanding of the species' ecology in this region. First, we used the data from 5 snow leopards equipped with GPS collars at four study sites in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia to broadly characterize patterns of home range use between 2013 and 2019. The data was used to calculate home range size from a 10 month period using three different estimators: minimum convex p

SUBMITTER: Rosenbaum B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10045553 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature