Habitat Overlap of Tiger and Leopard in Banke-Bardia Complex.

ABSTRACT: Tiger (Panthera tigris) and leopard (Panthera pardus) are two congener species and wherever they live together are found to compete for space and habitat. The study on habitat suitability and overlap between tigers and leopards in the Banke-Bardia Complex, Nepal, aims to assess the ecological preferences and spatial distribution patterns of these big cat species within the given landscape. For the study the Banke-Bardia Complex was considered as it is one of the priority tiger conservation units. We have gathered the GPS location of tigers and leopards from the camera trap survey. Maximum Entropy (Maxent) is software used to model the suitable habitat of species by using geo-referenced occurrence data and environmental variables. We used area under the receiver-operator curve

SUBMITTER: Kandel SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670131 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature