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Field Practices: Assessing Tiger Habitat Occupancy Dynamics

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Conservation and management planning of tigers and prey species requires basic information on the spatial distribution at regional and landscape levels, at an appropriate scale (Karanth and Nichols 2000).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, Bengaluru, India

    N. Samba Kumar, Mahi Puri & K. Ullas Karanth

  2. Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, India

    Mahi Puri & K. Ullas Karanth

  3. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Mahi Puri & K. Ullas Karanth

  4. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), New York, NY, USA

    Dale G. Miquelle

  5. Department of Ecology, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia

    Dale G. Miquelle

  6. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Thailand Program, Bangkok, Thailand

    Anak Pattanavibool

  7. Department of Conservation, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Anak Pattanavibool

  8. Tiger Program, Panthera, New York, NY, USA

    Abishek Harihar

  9. Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysuru, India

    Abishek Harihar

  10. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Sunarto Sunarto

  11. Forum HarimauKita, Bogor, Indonesia

    Sunarto Sunarto

  12. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India

    Srinivas Vaidyanathan

  13. National Centre for Biological Sciences – TIFR, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

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  2. Crofton, Maryland, USA

    James D. Nichols

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Kumar, N.S. et al. (2017). Field Practices: Assessing Tiger Habitat Occupancy Dynamics. In: Karanth, K., Nichols, J. (eds) Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5436-5_5

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