Connecting the dots: mapping habitat connectivity for tigers in central India

T Dutta, S Sharma, BH McRae, PS Roy… - Regional Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Large connected landscapes are paramount to maintain top predator populations. Across
their range, tiger (Panthera tigris) populations occur in small fragmented patches of habitat …

Prioritizing tiger conservation through landscape genetics and habitat linkages

B Yumnam, YV Jhala, Q Qureshi, JE Maldonado… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Even with global support for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation their survival is threatened
by poaching, habitat loss and isolation. Currently about 3,000 wild tigers persist in small …

Tigers of the world: genomics and conservation

SJ Luo, YC Liu, X Xu - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Of all the big cats, or perhaps of all the endangered wildlife, the tiger may be both the most
charismatic and most well-recognized flagship species in the world. The rapidly changing …

Human footprint differentially impacts genetic connectivity of four wide‐ranging mammals in a fragmented landscape

P Thatte, A Chandramouli, A Tyagi… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Maintaining connectivity is critical for long‐term persistence of wild carnivores in
landscapes fragmented due to anthropogenic activity. We examined spatial genetic structure …

Forest corridors maintain historical gene flow in a tiger metapopulation in the highlands of central India

S Sharma, T Dutta, JE Maldonado… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the patterns of gene flow of an endangered species metapopulation
occupying a fragmented habitat is crucial for landscape-level conservation planning and …

Connectivity of Tiger (Panthera tigris) Populations in the Human-Influenced Forest Mosaic of Central India

A Joshi, S Vaidyanathan, S Mondol, A Edgaonkar… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Today, most wild tigers live in small, isolated Protected Areas within human dominated
landscapes in the Indian subcontinent. Future survival of tigers depends on increasing local …

How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India

M Aylward, V Sagar, M Natesh… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Unprecedented advances in sequencing technology in the past decade allow a better
understanding of genetic variation and its partitioning in natural populations. Such inference …

How much gene flow is needed to avoid inbreeding depression in wild tiger populations?

J Kenney, FW Allendorf… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The number and size of tiger populations continue to decline owing to habitat loss, habitat
fragmentation and poaching of tigers and their prey. As a result, tiger populations have …

Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

JM Schoen, A Neelakantan, SA Cushman… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As ecological data and associated analyses become more widely available, synthesizing
results for effective communication with stakeholders is essential. In the case of wildlife …

Recovery planning towards doubling wild tiger Panthera tigris numbers: Detailing 18 recovery sites from across the range

A Harihar, P Chanchani, J Borah, RJ Crouthers… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
With less than 3200 wild tigers in 2010, the heads of 13 tiger-range countries committed to
doubling the global population of wild tigers by 2022. This goal represents the highest level …