Melanistic leopards reveal their spots: infrared camera traps provide a population density estimate of leopards in Malaysia

L Hedges, WY Lam, A Campos‐Arceiz… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
To date, leopards (Panthera pardus) in Peninsular Malaysia have been overlooked by large
carnivore researchers. This is in part due to the country's unique population of individuals …

Translocation as a tool for mitigating conflict with leopards in human‐dominated landscapes of India

V Athreya, M Odden, JDC Linnell… - Conservation …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the efficacy of a translocation program in which large numbers of leopards
(Panthera pardus fusca) were trapped in human‐dominated landscapes where livestock …

Edge effects and the impact of non‐protected areas in carnivore conservation: leopards in the Phinda–Mkhuze Complex, South Africa

GA Balme, ROB Slotow, LTB Hunter - Animal conservation, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Although high rates of anthropogenic mortality are often reported for carnivores near reserve
borders, the resulting edge effects are rarely quantified, and the consequences on …

Effects of a protection gradient on carnivore density and survival: an example with leopards in the Luangwa valley, Zambia

E Rosenblatt, S Creel, MS Becker, J Merkle… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities on the periphery of protected areas can limit carnivore populations, but
measurements of the strength of such effects are limited, largely due to difficulties of …

[PDF][PDF] Leopards in human-dominated areas: a spillover from sustained translocations into nearby forests?

VR Athreya, SS Thakur… - JOURNAL …, 2007 - indiaenvironmentportal.org.in
India has a history of human-large cat conflict (Seidensticker and Lumpkin 1991), but
increasingly it is the Leopard Panthera pardus fusca, which is most often implicated in …

Home range and movements of male leopards in the Cedarberg Wilderness Area, Cape Province

SR Norton, PM & Henley - South African Journal of Wildlife Research …, 1987 - journals.co.za
Three adult male leopards Panthera pardus in the Cedarberg Wilderness Area were fitted
with radio collars and their movements were plotted for 12-13 months. Home-range sizes …

An estimate of leopard population density in a private reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, using camera-traps and capture-recapture models

S Chapman, G Balme - South African Journal of Wildlife Research …, 2010 - journals.co.za
Camera-trap surveys, when combined with capture-recapture models, are an accurate and
cost-effective method for estimating the abundance of individually identifiable carnivore …

Face value: towards robust estimates of snow leopard densities

JS Alexander, AM Gopalaswamy, K Shi, P Riordan - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
When densities of large carnivores fall below certain thresholds, dramatic ecological effects
can follow, leading to oversimplified ecosystems. Understanding the population status of …

Tiger and leopard co-occurrence: intraguild interactions in response to human and livestock disturbance

H Kafley, BR Lamichhane, R Maharjan… - Basic and Applied …, 2019 - Elsevier
Intraguild interactions have important implications for carnivore demography and
conservation. Differences in how predators respond to different forms of disturbance might …

[HTML][HTML] Density and movements of mainland clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa) under conditions of high and low poaching pressure

WJ Petersen, R Steinmetz, K Sribuarod… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite its high risk of extinction in the wild, little is known about the ecology and population
status of the mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa). We used camera-traps and …