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Estimating snow leopard density using fecal DNA in a large landscape in north-central Nepal

Author(s) -

Madhu Chetri,

Morten Odden,

Koustubh Sharma,

Øystein Flagstad,

Per Wegge

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

global ecology and conservation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.133

H-Index - 36

ISSN - 2351-9894

DOI - 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00548

Subject(s) - transect , snow leopard , range (aeronautics) , physical geography , habitat , snow , geography , abundance (ecology) , sampling (signal processing) , ecology , leopard , belt transect , elevation (ballistics) , environmental science , biology , meteorology , materials science , filter (signal processing) , computer science , composite material , computer vision , geometry , mathematics

Although abundance estimates have a strong bearing on the conservation status of a species, less than 2% of the global snow leopard distribution range has been sampled systematically, mostly in small survey areas. In order to estimate snow leopard density across a large landscape, we collected 347 putative snow leopard scats from 246 transects (490 km) in twenty-six 5 × 5km sized sampling grid cells within 4393 km2 in Annapurna-Manaslu, Nepal. From 182 confirmed snow leopard scats, 81 were identified as belonging to 34 individuals; the remaining were discarded for their low (

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