Modelling the species distribution of flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), an endangered South-East Asian small felid.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is one of the world's least known, highly threatened felids with a distribution restricted to tropical lowland rainforests in Peninsular Thailand/Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra. Throughout its geographic range large-scale anthropogenic transformation processes, including the pollution of fresh-water river systems and landscape fragmentation, raise concerns regarding its conservation status. Despite an increasing number of camera-trapping field surveys for carnivores in South-East Asia during the past two decades, few of these studies recorded the flat-headed cat.

Methodology/principal findings

In this study, we designed a predictive species distribution model using the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) algorithm to reassess the po

SUBMITTER: Wilting A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2840020 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature