Relationships between humans and ungulate prey shape Amur tiger occurrence in a core protected area along the Sino-Russian border.

ABSTRACT: Large carnivore populations are globally threatened by human impacts. Better protection could benefit carnivores, co-occurring species, and the ecosystems they inhabit. The relationship between carnivores and humans, however, is not always consistent in areas of high human activities and is often mediated through the effects of humans on their ungulate prey. To test assumptions regarding how prey abundance and humans affect carnivore occurrence, density, and daily activity patterns, we assessed tiger-prey-human spatiotemporal patterns based on camera-trapping data in Hunchun Nature Reserve, a promising core area for tiger restoration in China. Our study area contained seasonally varying levels of human disturbance in summer and winter. We used N-mixture models to predict the relative abund

SUBMITTER: Xiao W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303753 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature