A5073729295- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Manipal University Jaipur
2024
Centre For Wildlife Studies
2007-2022
Development Initiatives
2022
University of Florida
2011-2020
Wildlife Conservation Society India
2007-2019
Wildlife Conservation Society
2015-2016
Zoological Society of London
2016
International Union for Conservation of Nature (United Kingdom)
2016
Oregon State University
2016
National Centre for Biological Sciences
2007-2011
From the late Pleistocene to Holocene, and now so called Anthropocene, humans have been driving an ongoing series of species declines extinctions (Dirzo et al. 2014). Large-bodied mammals are typically at a higher risk extinction than smaller ones (Cardillo 2005). However, in some circumstances terrestrial megafauna populations able recover their lost numbers due strong conservation political commitment, human cultural changes (Chapron Indeed many would be considerably worse predicaments...
Connectivity plays a crucial role in determining the spread, viability, and persistence of populations across space. Dispersal landscapes, or movement individuals genes among resource patches, is critical for functional connectivity. Yet current connectivity modelling typically uses information on species location habitat preference rather than movement, which unfortunately may not capture key dispersal limitations. We argue that recent developments distribution provide insightful lessons...
Crop and livestock depredation by wildlife is a primary driver of human-wildlife conflict, problem that threatens the coexistence people globally. Understanding mechanisms underlie patterns holds key to mitigating conflicts across time space. However, most studies do not consider imperfect detection reporting conflicts, which may lead incorrect inference regarding its spatiotemporal drivers. We applied dynamic occupancy models elephant crop data from India between 2005 2011 estimate...
Persistence of species in the Anthropocene depends on human willingness-to-coexist with them, but this is rarely incorporated into habitat suitability or conservation priority assessments. We propose a framework sustainable coexistence potential that integrates demonstrate its applicability for elephants and rhinos socio-ecological system Maasai Mara, Kenya, by integrating spatial distributions peoples' based Bayesian hierarchical models using 556 household interviews, mapping validated...
Additional co-authors: Holly T Dublin, James A Estes, Kristoffer Everatt, Mauro Galetti, Varun R Goswami, Matt W Hayward, Simon Hedges, Michael Hoffmann, Luke TB Hunter, Graham IH Kerley, Mike Letnic, Taal Levi, John C Morrison, Paul Nelson, Thomas M Newsome, Painter, Robert Pringle, Christopher J Sandom, Terborgh, Adrian Treves, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Vucetich, Aaron Wirsing, Arian D Wallach, Wolf, Rosie Woodroffe, Hillary Young, And Li Zhang
Conservation of wide-ranging endangered species is increasingly focused on large heterogeneous landscapes. At such scales, particularly when conservation landscapes are human dominated, it imperative that prioritization techniques be used to allocate limited resources wisely. Moreover, spatial aspects planning warrant key consideration within these landscapes, certain sites either mitigating threats or maintaining ecological processes, prioritized. However, there often multiple needs, and...
Balancing the competing, and often conflicting, needs of people wildlife in shared landscapes is a major challenge for conservation science policy worldwide. Connectivity critical persistence, but dispersing animals may come into conflict with people, leading to severe costs humans impeding connectivity. Thus, mitigation connectivity present an apparent dilemma conservation. We framework address this disentangle effects barriers animal movement conflict-induced mortality dispersers on extend...
Abstract Understanding mechanisms underlying coexistence among potential competitors, and between predators prey, is a persistent challenge in community ecology. Using 6 years (2013–2018) of camera‐trapping data species interaction models, we investigated the spatiotemporal patterns inter‐ intra‐guild interspecific interactions diverse terrestrial mammalian Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary Tiger Reserve (PTR), Northeast India. We found no evidence spatial apex (tiger Panthera tigris , leopard pardus...
Abstract In addition to the threats of habitat loss and degradation, adult males Asian elephant Elephas maximus also face greater from ivory poaching conflict with humans. To understand impact these threats, conservationists need robust estimates abundance vital rates specifically for male segment populations. By integrating identification individual elephants in a population distinct morphology natural markings, modern capture–recapture (CR) sampling designs, it is possible estimate various...
Understanding species distribution patterns has direct ramifications for the conservation of endangered species, such as Asian elephant Elephas maximus. However, reliable assessment is handicapped by factors large spatial scales field studies, survey expertise required, paucity analytical approaches that explicitly account confounding observation processes imperfect and variable detectability, unequal sampling probability dependence among animal detections. We addressed these problems...
Although ecologists have long recognized that certain mammalian species exhibit high-amplitude, often multiannual, fluctuations in abundance, their causes remained poorly understood and the subject of intense debate. A key contention has been relative role density-dependent density-independent processes governing population dynamics. We applied capture-mark-recapture analysis to 25 years monthly trapping data from a fluctuating prairie vole Microtus ochrogaster Illinois, USA, estimate...
Abstract Endangered, wide‐ranging megafauna have many threats to contend with during their struggle for survival in an ever‐increasing human dominance of the environment. Reliable monitoring endangered large mammal populations is therefore a critical conservation requirement. Photographic capture–recapture ( CR ) techniques opened up avenues population individually recognizable species. The efficient application these techniques, however, can be constrained by challenges reliably identifying...
Abstract Large herbivores respond to seasonal changes in resource availability through habitat selection. Understanding variations choice is crucial for targeting conservation efforts, particularly endangered, wide‐ranging species, such as the Asian elephant. We assessed patterns and determinants of elephant use during dry season, a period limitation tropical deciduous forests, Western Ghats Karnataka, India. collected detection/non‐detection data on signs under an occupancy sampling...
Abstract Aim Connectivity is increasingly important for landscape‐scale conservation programmes. Yet there are obstacles to developing reliable connectivity maps, including paucity of data on animal use the non‐habitat matrix. Our aim was identify areas endangered Asian elephant Elephas maximus across a 21,210 km 2 region using empirical and recently developed movement models. Location Northeast India. Methods We interviewed 1,184 respondents, primarily farmers, residing our study region,...
The hitherto difficult task of reliably estimating populations wide-ranging megafauna has been enabled by advances in capture-recapture methodology. Here we combine photographic sampling with a Bayesian spatially-explicit (SCR) model to estimate population parameters for the endangered Asian elephant Elephas maximus productive floodplain ecosystem Kaziranga National Park, India. Posterior density estimates herd-living adult females and sub-adult males (herd-adults) was 0.68 elephants/km2...
Abstract Mesopredators play an increasingly important role in ecosystems where apex predators have been eliminated, but population ecology of these midsized mammalian carnivores remains poorly understood. We applied Pradel's temporal symmetry models to > 6 years monthly capture–mark–recapture data and investigated factors influencing apparent survival, recruitment, realized growth rate the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), mesopredator with unique life-history characteristics....
Interactions between wildlife and people lie at the core of conservation planning in heterogeneous landscapes. Understanding stakeholder perspectives towards is a key endeavour this regard. In particular, it can be useful to separate notional or generic attitudes wildlife, from those that pertain more practical considerations localised scales. We assessed nuances underlying beliefs endangered Asian elephant Elephas maximus––a wide-ranging species needs landscape-scale conservation, while...