Abstract Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) is used to identify a species' potential current
and future distribution. While numerous global studies have reported species distribution …

Loss of native habitat has been identified as one of the crucial drivers of the growing
biodiversity crisis, acting toward the deleterious effects on individual fitness, functional …

Climate exerts a dominant control over the distribution of species. Generally, species
migrate to higher elevations to track thermal niches, but variations in morphological traits …

Vultures are an indispensable part of a healthy and balanced ecosystem. Vultures migrate
from breeding to wintering grounds to access resources which are otherwise unavailable …

As obligate scavengers, vultures are important to ecosystem health but their numbers are
declining globally. A major cause may be habitat loss due to anthropogenic or natural …

Populations of resident vulture species crashed in Indian subcontinent to critically
endangered levels. Recovery lay in the creation of vulture safe zones (VSZs), at least for …

Abstract Eurasian Black Vulture (EBV) and Eurasian Griffon Vulture (EGV), while residents
elsewhere, winter in Uttar Pradesh, India. Knowledge of the habitat and regulating factors is …

Environmental factors, such as climate change and anthropogenic activities, constitute the
principal drivers behind the global decline of avian scavengers. In this context …

Out of eight Gyps species in the world, three residents (G. bengalensis, G. indicus, G.
tenuirostris) and two migratory (G. fulvus, G. himalayensis) inhabit Indian forests and other …

Vultures are key to the functioning of ecosystems but they are assessed to be threatened
globally and their numbers are at-risk due to changes in habitat and other factors. This study …