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Research overview: big cats as apex predators and trophic cascades
OverviewAs apex predators, big cats can exert top-down control that ripples through ecosystems via trophic cascades. This overview synthesizes evidence that lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, and jaguars influen…
Research overview: estimating jaguar density with camera traps
OverviewLike tigers, jaguars are individually identifiable by their rosette patterns, making camera-trap capture-recapture a key tool for estimating their density. This overview synthesizes how researchers ac…
Research overview: methods for estimating big-cat density
OverviewEstimating how many big cats occupy an area is a central and challenging task in their ecology and conservation. This overview reviews the main methods, from individual-identification camera-trap capt…
Wild Cats of the World: a synthesis of felid ecology
ReviewThis comprehensive reference compiled the biology, ecology, and conservation status of all the world's wild cat species, from the great roaring cats to the smallest felids. Drawing together field stud…
Sunquist, M. E., Sunquist, F. C. · University of Chicago Press · 2002