Leopard occupancy correlates with tiger and prey occurrences

Large carnivores such as leopards (Panthera pardus) experience continuing threats from habitat loss and fragmentation, depletion of prey populations, and retaliatory killing following conflicts with humans. We aimed to identify factors affecting leopard occupancy and temporal overlap between leopards and tigers (P. tigris), their major prey, and human activities in Parsa-Koshi Complex (PKC), Nepal. We deployed 154 cameras for 21 days each along wildlife trails throughout PKC during December 2022–March 2023. The data consists of weekly detection probability of leopard in PKC along with variables taken for the study. Variables include distance to settlement, number of humans detected, number of livestock detected, presence of tiger, presence of prey, area of water body within a radius of 500m from each trapping station and area of forest within same radius. The data is prepared for hierarchical occupancy modeling and can be analyzed using Just Another Gibbs , , , # Leopard occupancy correlates with tiger and prey occurrences

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\* Date created: 2023-12-07 * Date modified: 2024-12

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\* Creators: Hem Bahadur Katuwal, Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai, Sandeep Regmi, Shivish Bhandari, Bishnu Aryal, Krishna Tamang, Amrit Nepali, Sabin K.C., Dipendra Adhikari, Basu Baral, Surya Devkota, Sabina Koirala, Dev Narayan Mandal, Jerrold L. Belant, Hari Prasad Sharma, Rui-Chang Quan

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\* Name: Hem Bahadur Katuwal * Affiliations: 1Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic...