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40 summaries in Climate & Habitat Change on snow leopard
Research overview: spatial vulnerability mapping to prioritize felid refugia
OverviewIdentifying where to concentrate conservation under climate change requires mapping vulnerability, combining exposure to change with the value and irreplaceability of habitat. This overview surveys ho…
Research overview: thermal physiology and the realized niche of wild cats
OverviewWhether a cat's distribution is limited directly by temperature or indirectly through prey, vegetation, and competitors shapes how it will respond to warming. This overview surveys what is known about…
Research overview: topographic and microclimate refugia for montane cats
OverviewRugged terrain creates a mosaic of microclimates, with cool, shaded, or moist pockets that can buffer species against regional warming, a key idea for montane cats. This overview surveys how topograph…
Research overview: trait-based climate vulnerability assessment for snow leopards
OverviewBeyond distribution models, conservationists use structured climate vulnerability assessments that combine a species' exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity into an overall risk rating. This ove…
Research overview: transboundary snow leopard conservation in a warming climate
OverviewSnow leopard range spans twelve countries, so climate-resilient conservation requires cooperation across contested international borders. This overview reviews how initiatives like the Global Snow Leo…
Research overview: validating felid distribution models and evaluation metrics
OverviewAssessing whether a habitat model is any good requires careful evaluation, especially when projecting into the future where ground truth is unavailable. This overview surveys the metrics used, AUC, tr…
Research overview: vegetation productivity, NDVI, and felid prey forecasting
OverviewSatellite indices of vegetation productivity such as NDVI track the green forage that drives herbivore abundance, offering a remote way to anticipate prey conditions for predators. This overview surve…
Research overview: warming, upslope pastoralism, and snow leopard conflict
OverviewClimate warming is enabling herders to graze livestock at higher elevations and later into the season, expanding the overlap between domestic stock and snow leopard core habitat. This overview examine…
Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction across space and time
ReviewThis widely cited review synthesized the theory and practice of species distribution models (SDMs), the statistical tools that relate species occurrence to environmental predictors to map current and…
Elith, J., Leathwick, J.R. · Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics · 2009
Vulnerability of snow leopard habitat to treeline shift in the Himalaya
PaperThis landmark assessment modeled how upslope movement of the alpine treeline under warming could shrink the snow leopard's alpine and subalpine habitat across the Himalaya. Using climate envelopes and…
Forrest, J.L., Wikramanayake, E., Shrestha, R., Areendran, G., Gyeltshen, K., Maheshwari, A., Mazumdar, S., Naidoo, R., Thapa, G.J., Thapa, K. · Biological Conservation · 2012