Estimating Snow Leopard Population Abundance Using Photography and Capture–Recapture Techniques

By R. Jackson, J. Roe, R. Wangchuk, D. Hunter. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Spatial and Temporal Structure of a Mesocarnivore Guild in Midwestern North America (2015, background): “The assumption that animals move independently of cameras might be violated if animals develop shyness, caused by avoid nce of either the flash of remote cameras or the cameras themselves (Séquin et al. 2003, Wegge et al. 2004, Jackson et al. 2006).”
Is research effort allocated efficiently for conservation? Felidae as a global case study (2009, background): “…research on tigers (Karanth and Nichols 1998, 2002; Karanth et al. 2004a), the seventh most studied felid, has generated innovative monitoring techniques that are increasingly being applied to other species (Trolle and Kery 2003; Silver et al. 2004; Jackson et al. 2006; Salom-Perez et al. 2007).”
Comparison of methods to detect rare and cryptic species: A case study using the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) (2009, unknown): “The first is camera trapping (Karanth 1995; Moruzzi et al. 2002; Trolle and Kery 2003; Jackson et al. 2006).”
Population monitoring of snow leopards using noninvasive collection of scat samples: a pilot study (2008, methodology): “We identified two males and two females in Ladakh, one male in Qinghai and three males and two females in South Gobi.”
An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large‐ and medium‐sized terrestrial rainforest mammals (2008, background): “Camera traps are still most frequently used in surveys to estimate the abundance of large cats (Wallace et al., 2003; Silver et al., 2004; Di Bitetti, Paviolo & De Angelo, 2006; Jackson et al., 2006; Karanth et al., 2006).”
Finding areas of motion in camera trap images (2016, methodology): “Index Terms— Camera Trapping, Conservation Biology”
Comparison of noninvasive genetic and camera-trapping techniques for surveying snow leopards (2011, methodology): “Snow leopard densities have ranged from a low of 0.2 individuals/100 km2 in SaryChat Zapovednik, Kyrgyzstan (McCarthy et al. 2008) to 4.5 individuals/100 km2 (2002) and 8.5 individuals/100 km2 (2003) in Hemis National Park, India (Jackson et al. 2006).”
Comparing methods for sampling large- and medium-sized mammals: camera traps and track plots (2008, background): “This may be the reason for a higher detection rate at the beginning of long term studies (Wemmer et al. 1996; York et al. 2001; Wegge et al. 2004; Jackson et al. 2006).”
Evaluating Methods for Counting Cryptic Carnivores (2009, unknown): “…developed this method to monitor tiger (Panthera tigris) populations in India and it has since been used to estimate abundance in a range of other felid species that are individually identifiable (Henschel 2001, Trolle and Kerry 2003, Silver et al. 2004, Heilbrun et al. 2006, Jackson et al. 2006).”
A critique of density estimation from camera-trap data† (2012, background): “Various studies have reported that small survey areas give inflated density estimates (e.g., Cuellar et al. 2006, Jackson et al. 2006, Dillon and Kelly 2007, Foster 2008, Maffei and Noss 2008).”
Substrate and species constraints on the use of track incidences to estimate African large carnivore abundance (2010, background): “Some of these techniques if properly executed can be costly and time consuming to implement (e.g. Karanth & Nichols, 1998; Jackson et al., 2006).”
Assessing Estimators of Snow Leopard Abundance (2008, background): “In Zanskar Valley, Ladakh India, Spearing (2002) captured 10 snow leopard images in just 64 camera-trap–nights, and in Hemis National Park, Ladakh, India, researchers captured 194 images, and 12 uniquely identifiable snow leopards, in 1,612 camera-trap–nights (Jackson et al. 2006).”
Estimating abundance of the remnant Apennine brown bear population using multiple noninvasive genetic data sources (2015, background): “…populations, Ursus © 2015 American Society of Mammalogists, www.mammalogy.org Small populations of large carnivores pose the greatest theoretical and practical challenges for population assessment and monitoring (Clevenger and Purroy 1996; McDonald 2004; Jackson et al. 2006; Lynam et al. 2009).”
Effects of low-level culling of feral cats in open populations: a case study from the forests of southern Tasmania (2015, methodology): “Remote cameras have been used to successfully estimate the abundance of a range of wild felines including tigers, Panthera tigris (Karanth andNichols 1998), pumas,Puma concolor (Kelly et al. 2008), and snow leopards, Uncia uncia (Jackson et al. 2006).”