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Maintaining tiger connectivity and minimizing extinction into the next century: Insights from landscape genetics and spatially-explicit simulations
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In this paper, the authors used landscape genetic simulations to model 86 different scenarios that incorporated impacts of future land-use change on inferred population connectivity and extinction, linking basic science to land use change policy and planned infrastructure development.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 2018-02-01. It has received 80 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extinction probability & Habitat destruction.read more
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Data from: Prioritizing tiger conservation through landscape genetics and habitat linkages
Bibek Yumnam,Yadvendradev V. Jhala,Qamar Qureshi,Rajesh Gopal,Jesús E. Maldonado,Swati Saini,Yellapu Srinivas,Robert C. Fleischer +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used individual-based genetic analysis in combination with landscape permeability models to identify and prioritize movement corridors across seven tiger populations within the Central Indian Landscape, and found that the covariates that best explained tiger occupancy were large, remote, dense forest patches; large ungulate abundance, and low human footprint.
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Operationalizing Ecological Resilience Concepts for Managing Species and Ecosystems at Risk
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview and integration of the use of resilience concepts to guide natural resources management actions and suggest that a resilience-based management approach facilitates regional planning by providing the ability to locate management actions where they will have the greatest benefits and determine effective management strategies.
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Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in India
Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar,Ruby An,R. Athreya,Udayan Borthakur,Pranav Chanchani,Dilip Chetry,Aparajita Datta,Abishek Harihar,Abishek Harihar,Krithi K. Karanth,Krithi K. Karanth,Dincy Mariyam,Dhananjai Mohan,Malvika Onial,Uma Ramakrishnan,V. V. Robin,Ajai Saxena,Ghazala Shahabuddin,Prachi Thatte,Varsha Vijay,Varsha Vijay,Kristen Wacker,Vinod B. Mathur,Stuart L. Pimm,Trevor D. Price +24 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess three well-supported generalizations in conservation biology: developing tropical countries will experience the greatest biodiversity declines in the near future, they are some of the least studied areas in the world, and in these regions especially, protection requires local community support.
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Illegal hunting as a major driver of the source-sink dynamics of a reintroduced lynx population in Central Europe
Marco Heurich,J. Schultze-Naumburg,J. Schultze-Naumburg,N. Piacenza,Nora Magg,Jaroslav Červený,T. Engleder,Micha Herdtfelder,M. Sladova,Stephanie Kramer-Schadt +9 more
TL;DR: The authors used a spatially-explicit individual-based dispersal and population model to inversely fit mortality probabilities to long-term monitoring data; the model integrated both chance observations and telemetry data, and discriminated between baseline mortality, road mortality and added unknown mortality.
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Genomic evidence for inbreeding depression and purging of deleterious genetic variation in Indian tigers.
Anubhab Khan,Kaushalkumar Patel,Harsh Shukla,Ashwin Viswanathan,Ashwin Viswanathan,Tom van der Valk,Udayan Borthakur,Parag Nigam,Arun Zachariah,Y. V. Jhala,Marty Kardos,Uma Ramakrishnan,Uma Ramakrishnan +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used whole-genome sequences from 57 tigers to estimate individual inbreeding and mutation load in a small-isolated and two large-connected populations in India.
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