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134 summaries on snow leopard
Research overview: tourism benefits and their effect on tolerance for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on whether wildlife-tourism revenue increases local tolerance for big cats by offsetting conflict costs. It reviews cases from jaguar tourism in the Pantanal, lion t…
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 landscapes for snow leopard conservation
OverviewThe snow leopard's range spans a dozen countries across the mountains of Asia, making transboundary cooperation essential. This overview synthesizes how conservation has shifted toward large, connecte…
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…
Research overview: why big cats roar but cannot purr continuously, and vice versa
OverviewThe roaring big cats and the purring small cats appear to form complementary groups, and this overview reviews the basis and limits of this divide. The flexible, incompletely ossified hyoid and specia…
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
Supermatrix and Species Tree Methods Resolve Relationships Within Panthera
PaperThe big cats of the genus Panthera proved historically difficult to resolve because of rapid speciation and conflicting gene trees. This study assembled a large multilocus supermatrix and applied both…
Brian W. Davis, Gang Li, William J. Murphy · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2010
The Tiger Genome and Comparative Analysis with Lion and Snow Leopard Genomes
PaperThis study produced the first reference genome of the tiger, sequenced from an Amur tiger, and compared it with newly generated lion and snow leopard genome data. The authors identified genetic signat…
Yun Sung Cho, Jong Bhak, et al. · Nature Communications · 2013
The role of incentive programs in conserving the snow leopard
PaperMishra and colleagues outlined and evaluated community-based incentive programs designed to offset the costs herders bear from snow leopard depredation in the Himalaya. They described mechanisms inclu…
Charudutt Mishra, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2003
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
Wild Cats of the World
ReviewSunquist and Sunquist's comprehensive reference compiles the natural history, ecology and behavior of all wild felid species, with extensive treatment of diet, prey selection, hunting modes and predat…
Sunquist, M. & Sunquist, F. · University of Chicago Press · 2002