Overview
- Is the only book presenting a comprehensive information about the population dynamics
- Presents the comprehensive review, new, previously unpublished data from 15 years of intensive camera trapping
- combined with scat sampling and their analyses will be presented
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is an endangered species, and its population size is steadily declining. The main threats to the snow leopard include illegal trade, conflict with locals (human-snow leopard conflict), lack of conservation, awareness and policy, and climate change. To avoid its extinction, we badly need a good knowledge of its ecology, distribution and population dynamics, including interactions with its prey, which will take into account various scenarios of changes in climate and human impact on snow leopard. This book aims to put together a considerable amount of unpublished data collected by the co-author of most of the chapters, Bikram Shrestha, which might be useful for other researchers working on snow leopard. In addition, researchers might find it useful to have a key for determining the diet of snow leopard based on remnants of its food in its scats. Last, but not least, based on the difficulty we experienced trying to compare and combine differentsets of results, we propose a general methodology for collecting data. Thus, this book is not an all-encompassing compendium, but an attempt to fill some gaps in the literature and to show, how to publish new data on snow leopard in a useful and workable way.
The purpose of this book is to provide a tool for both environmental managers and researchers to find quickly what is known about this species for conservation planning and for an effective protection of snow leopard. However, enthusiasts interestedin wild cats may welcome the book, too.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Snow Leopards in Nepal
Book Subtitle: Predator-Prey System on the Top of the World
Editors: Pavel Kindlmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11355-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11354-3Published: 01 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11357-4Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11355-0Published: 30 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 211
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Conservation Biology/Ecology, Animal Ecology, Biodiversity, Vertebrates