The Arabian leopard Panthera pardus nimr is categorized as Critically Endangered, with<
200 individuals estimated to remain in the wild. Historically the species ranged over an …

Determining correlates of density for large carnivores is important to understand their
ecological requirements and develop conservation strategies. Of several earlier density …

Decline in global carnivore populations has led to increased demand for assessment of
carnivore densities in understudied habitats. Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) is used …

Leopards (Panthera pardus) are the only free-ranging large predators to still occur naturally
throughout much of Africa, but are vulnerable to habitat loss, ecosystem degradation and …

Simple Summary Due to continuous levels of human–wildlife conflict, habitat loss and
fragmentation, the establishment of protected and enclosed reserves constitute a solid …

Abstract In Namibia, leopards (Panthera pardus) are widely distributed, used commercially
as trophy animals and are often persecuted for perceived or real predation on livestock and …

Camera traps are an increasingly used tool in ecology, having the ability to capture large
numbers of photographic records in short survey periods. For many surveys, the number of …

Carnivore populations are globally in decline (Wolf & Ripple, 2017), largely due to human–
wildlife conflict, illegal hunting, habitat loss, fragmentation, and prey depletion (Ray …

Discussions regarding the importance of accounting for detection probability have long been
present in ecological literature. Various studies have demonstrated the influence of survey …

West Asian drylands host a number of threatened large carnivores, including the leopard
(Panthera pardus) which is limited generally to areas with low primary productivity. While …