Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations
This book addresses issues of monitoring populations of tigers, ungulate prey species and habitat occupancy, with relevance to similar assessments of large mammal species and general biodiversity. It covers issues of rigorous sampling, modeling, estimatio
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ods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations
Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations
K. Ullas Karanth • James D. Nichols Editors
Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations
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Editors K. Ullas Karanth Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) New York, NY, USA
James D. Nichols Crofton, MD, USA
Centre for Wildlife Studies Bengaluru, India Wildlife Conservation Society India Program Bengaluru, India National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR Bengaluru, India
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Foreword
If wild tigers were easy to study, every aspiring field researcher would want to do so. The elegance, ecological role, and aura of this top predator exert a magnetic pull that extends far beyond biologists. Surveys undertaken by conservation groups show that among the general public, tigers consistently come out as the most popular wild species on Earth. The irony, of course, is that catching a glimpse of a tiger outside of zoos and in its natural habitats is often, at best, a once-in-a-lifetime event. It should thus come as no surprise that since George Schaller’s pioneering study of wild tigers in India’s Kanha National Park over 50 years ago, relatively few long-term field studies have been successfully carried out on this highly territorial, secretive large carnivore. The authors in this volume make up a large subset of those intrepid biologists who have crouched on jungle trails to set camera traps, pick up scat
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