Presence locations (direct and indirect) of blue sheep and livestock in Johar Valley, Uttarakhand, India from years 2015-2017

In-depth knowledge of distribution and their factors are important for species conservation and management. Many forms of such data have led to development of new analytical techniques for better interpretation. For mountainous terrains with certain limitations, species data is obtained in presence-only form. Point process model is one of the recent approaches for modelling such data, taking care of pseudo-absences and spatial independence. For conservation of regions with limited resources and species with similar ecological requirements, it is important to properly assess competition extent between wild and domestic species. We attempted to use point process framework to estimate resource selection function of blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) in pastoralism influenced areas of a western Himalayan landscape. Our study is a first attempt to use this framework to estimate resource selection on a dataset not collected using radio-telemetry. Spatial locations of presence points of blue sheep a...