Identifying Priority Areas for the Indian Leopard (<i>Panthera pardus fusca</i>) Within a Shared Landscape.

ABSTRACT: Habitat loss is one of the primary drivers of large felid decline. The leopard (Panthera pardus), a generalist large felid species, has the behavioural and dietary flexibility to exploit different habitat types of varying human influence. Understanding habitat selection in a shared landscape is critical for the development of conservation strategies and managing negative human-leopard interactions. The development of conservation policy requires data on large spatial scales, which is mostly lacking, especially within shared landscapes in India. This study aims to determine habitat selection by Indian leopards and the anthropogenic, environmental, and climatic variables contributing to this selection. Leopard occurrence records were obtained from an occupancy survey conducted in the

SUBMITTER: Kolekar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11467164 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature