Chasms in charismatic species research: Seventy years of carnivore science and its implications for conservation and policy in India

A Srivathsa, A Banerjee, S Banerjee, MM Chawla… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Substantial research and conservation resources are invested towards studying, protecting,
and managing carnivore populations, globally. But scholarly investigations that link the …

Geology and discovery record of the Trinil Pithecanthropus erectus site, Java

OF Huffman, AWJ Berkhout, PCH Albers, J de Vos… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The scientific utility of Eugène Dubois' Pithecanthropus erectus (Pe) Skullcap (Trinil 1),
Femur I (Trinil 3) and associated paleontological specimens has been impaired for over a …

On the Edge: Identifying priority areas for conservation of Fishing Cat, a threatened wetland felid, amidst rapidly altering freshwater landscapes

T Adhya, P Bagaria, P Dey, VH Muñoz… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Freshwater ecosystems have been most severely impacted in the Anthropocene with 27% of
its species threatened with extinction. Fishing Cat is a globally threatened South and South …

Geospatial modelling of overlapping habitats for identification of tiger corridor networks in the Terai Arc landscape of India

N Rautela, S Shanu, A Agarwal… - Geocarto …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Wildlife corridors in a landscape include local vegetation, topography, prey base, water and
are associated with isolated wildlife habitat patches. They facilitate maintenance of …

Local ecological knowledge and education drive farmers' contrasting perceptions of scavengers and their function in Nepal

A Bhattacharjee, BM Sadadev… - People and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is a long‐standing relationship between humans and vertebrate scavengers, as
scavengers' contributions take on regulating (eg nutrient recycling and disease control) …

Using Machine Learning to Predict the Risk of Human-Elephant Conflict in the Nepal-India Transboundary Region

B Khanal - 2022 - essay.utwente.nl
Human-elephant conflict (HEC) is a common form of human-wildlife conflict in African and
Asian countries where wild elephants are present. The cross-border regions between Nepal …

What drives prey selection? Assessment of tiger food habits across the Terai-Arc landscape, India

S Biswas, S Kumar, M Bandhopadhyay, SK Patel… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Large carnivores strongly shape ecological interactions within their respective ecosystems,
but experience significant conflicts with human across their range due to their specific …

Structural assemblage of beetles in different land-use types of the Nandhour Wildlife Sanctuary, Terai Arc Landscape

H Chandra, MK Arya, A Verma, Dayakrishna - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Nandhour Wildlife Sanctuary, which is located in the biodiversity rich Terai Arc
Landscape of India, provides a vivid array of habitats for wildlife in tropical to sub-tropical …