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The social organization of tigers in Royal Chitwan National Park
PaperBased on radio-telemetry of tigers in the lowland forests and grasslands of Chitwan, Nepal, this study described how tigers partition space through a land-tenure system. Resident females held largely…
Sunquist, M. E. · Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology · 1981
The social organization of tigers in Royal Chitwan National Park
PaperSunquist's radio-telemetry monograph from Nepal was among the first rigorous field studies of tiger spacing, movements and predation. He documented home-range sizes, land-tenure dynamics and how prey…
Sunquist, M.E. · Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology · 1981
The tiger genome and comparative analysis with lion and snow leopard genomes
PaperThis study produced the first reference genome for the tiger and compared it with newly sequenced lion and snow leopard genomes to investigate big cat evolution and adaptation. The authors identified…
Cho YS, Hu L, Hou H, et al. · Nature Communications · 2013
The use of camera traps for estimating jaguar abundance and density using capture/recapture analysis
PaperSilver and colleagues adapted the tiger camera-trap framework to jaguars, whose unique rosette patterns serve as individual marks. Working in Belize and across Latin American sites, they detailed prac…
Scott C. Silver, Linde E. T. Ostro, Laura K. Marsh, Leonardo Maffei, Andrew J. Noss, et al. · Oryx · 2004
Tigers and Their Prey: Predicting Carnivore Densities from Prey Abundance
PaperUsing long-term field data from Indian reserves, this study tested how strongly tiger numbers are governed by the abundance of wild ungulate prey. The authors combined prey density surveys with camera…
Karanth KU, Nichols JD, Kumar NS, Link WA, Hines JE · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004
Tigers and their prey: predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance
PaperCombining camera-trap density estimates with line-transect surveys of prey across multiple Indian reserves, this study demonstrated a strong relationship between the abundance of large ungulate prey a…
Karanth, K. U., Nichols, J. D., Kumar, N. S., Link, W. A., Hines, J. E. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004
Tigers and their prey: predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance
PaperUsing camera-trap density estimates of tigers alongside line-transect surveys of ungulate prey across many Asian sites, Karanth and colleagues tested whether predator density is governed by prey avail…
K. Ullas Karanth, James D. Nichols, N. Samba Kumar, William A. Link, James E. Hines · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004
Tigers and their prey: predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance
PaperKaranth and colleagues combined rigorous camera-trap capture-recapture estimates of tiger density with line-transect estimates of ungulate density across Indian reserves to test whether prey biomass p…
Karanth, K.U., Nichols, J.D., Kumar, N.S., Link, W.A. & Hines, J.E. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004
Tigers need cover: multi-scale occupancy of Sumatran tigers in forest and plantation
PaperThis study used a multi-scale occupancy framework to examine how Sumatran tigers use natural forest versus plantation and degraded landscapes, finding that tigers strongly depend on forest cover and a…
Sunarto, S., Kelly, M.J., Parakkasi, K., Klenzendorf, S., Septayuda, E., Kurniawan, H. · PLoS ONE · 2012
Tigers need cover: multi-scale occupancy study of the big cat in Sumatran forest and plantation landscapes
PaperSunarto and colleagues used multi-scale occupancy modeling, informed by camera-trap and field detections, to investigate how Sumatran tigers respond to forest cover and human-modified landscapes inclu…
Sunarto, Marcella J. Kelly, Karmila Parakkasi, Sybille Klenzendorf, Erin Septayuda, Harry Kurniawan · PLOS ONE · 2012
To hunt or not to hunt? A feeding enrichment experiment with captive large felids
PaperBashaw, Bloomsmith, Maple and Bercovitch tested whether feeding-based enrichment changes behaviour in tigers and lions, comparing a hung carcass-like 'fishing' device and bones against standard feedin…
Bashaw MJ, Bloomsmith MA, Maple TL, Bercovitch FB · Zoo Biology · 2003
Trophic downgrading of planet Earth
PaperThis influential synthesis argued that the loss of large apex consumers, including big cats and other top predators, is among humanity's most pervasive impacts on nature. Drawing on examples across ec…
Estes, J. A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J. S., et al. · Science · 2011
Trophic downgrading of planet Earth
ReviewEstes and a large group of coauthors synthesized evidence that the loss of apex consumers, including big cats, is among humanity's most pervasive influences on nature. The review marshaled cases acros…
Estes, J.A., Terborgh, J., Brashares, J.S. et al. · Science · 2011
Use of an action-selection framework for human-carnivore conflict in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
PaperBarlow and colleagues applied a structured action-selection framework to prioritise interventions for reducing human-tiger conflict in the Bangladesh Sundarbans, where tigers kill people and straying…
Adam C. D. Barlow, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2010
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