Research overview: range-wide climate vulnerability assessment for tigers

Beyond the Sundarbans, tigers across Asia face varied climate exposure layered onto severe habitat loss, prompting range-wide vulnerability thinking. This overview surveys how climate projections, sea-level rise in coastal populations, shifting vegetation in continental ones, and altered prey, combine with deforestation, infrastructure, and poaching to shape tiger futures across diverse landscapes. It reviews how vulnerability differs among tiger landscapes from mangroves to temperate forests of the Russian Far East. The synthesis frames tiger climate vulnerability as highly context-dependent, explaining why no single climate threat applies range-wide, and why assessments must consider each landscape's particular combination of climate exposure and the dominant, often habitat-loss-driven, pressures that govern tiger persistence there.