Tigers and their prey: Predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance.
By K. U. Karanth, James D. Nichols, N. S. Kumar, W. Link, J. Hines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004
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- The Fate of Wild Tigers (2007, neutral): “As territorial top carnivores, tigers require large spaces (Miquelle et al. 1999, Carbone et al. 2001, Karanth et al. 2004).”
- Density of tiger and leopard in a tropical deciduous forest of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, southern India, as estimated using photographic capture–recapture sampling (2011, methodology): “In India, this method has also been used for estimating tiger densities in a number of protected areas (Sharma et al. 2010; Jhala et al. 2008; Karanth 1995; Karanth and Nichols 1998, 2000, 2002; Karanth et al. 2004, 2006 ).”
- Influence of prey depletion and human disturbance on tiger occupancy in Nepal (2013, background): “as deer, bovids (gaur and blue bull) and wild boar because tiger density has been correlated with ungulate prey density (Karanth et al., 2004).”
- The Impact of Hunting on the Mammalian Fauna of Tropical Asian Forests (2007, background): “In some areas, depletion of the large ungulate prey may have been the major factor in their decline (Karanth et al. 2004).”
- Flexible habitat selection by cougars in response to anthropogenic development (2014, background): “Populations of large terrestrial carnivores are especially susceptible to anthropogenic landscape change due to habitat alteration and reduced populations of prey (Noss et al., 1996; Fuller and Sievert, 2001; Sunquist and Sunquist, 2001; Karanth et al., 2004), and because conflict with people freque”
- Population recovery patterns of Southeast Asian ungulates after poaching (2010, background): “, 2001), and serving as the principal prey for endangered tigers (Panthera tigris) and other sympatric large carnivores (Karanth et al., 2004).”
- Camera-trapping forest–woodland wildlife of western Uganda reveals how gregariousness biases estimates of relative abundance and distribution (2010, background): “, 2008) and allow estimation of abundances based on individual identification for some species (Henschel and Ray, 2003; Karanth et al., 2004; Silver et al., 2004; Wegge et al., 2004).”
- Practical Considerations for the Reintroduction of Large, Terrestrial, Mammalian Predators Based on Reintroductions to South Africa's Eastern Cape Province (2007, background): “For large carnivores this is less likely than for other species, as prey availability is more important than the vegetation characteristics of a site [42, 53, 54].”
- Assessing global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy and richness by integrating local camera trap surveys (2017, background): “Among these variables, one of the most fundamental is the availability of prey resources (Carbone & Gittleman, 2002; Farris et al., 2015; Fuller & Sievert, 2001; Henden, Stien, Bårdsen, Yoccoz, & Ims, 2014; Karanth et al., 2004).”
- Patterns and determinants of mammal species occurrence in India (2009, background): “Although India’s protected areas are small (average size <300 km) and fragmented, their carrying capacities for large mammals are high (Karanth et al. 2004).”
- Monitoring carnivore populations at the landscape scale: occupancy modelling of tigers from sign surveys (2011, background): “Given variations in the densities of tigers and prey at some sites (Karanth et al. 2004) and effectiveness of protection across MMTL, we expected substantial variations in site-level tiger abundances and consequently in site-level probabilities of tiger occupancy.”
- Effects of human–carnivore conflict on tiger (Panthera tigris) and prey populations in Lao PDR (2006, methodology): “Assuming prey abundance is a reliable predictor of tiger abundance (Karanth et al., 2004), our results suggest that tiger abundance varied because of direct human-caused mortality rather than a relative lack of prey.”