Food webs reveal coexistence mechanisms and community organization in carnivores

Q Lu, C Cheng, L Xiao, J Li, X Li, X Zhao, Z Lu, J Zhao… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Globally, massive carnivore guild extirpations have led to trophic downgrading and
compromised ecosystem services. However, the complexity of multi-carnivore food webs …

Contrasting responses of large carnivores to land use management across an Asian montane landscape in Iran

A Mohammadi, C Lunnon, RJ Moll, CKW Tan… - Biodiversity and …, 2021 - Springer
Land-use change has led to substantial range contractions for many species. Such
contractions are particularly acute for wide-ranging large carnivores in Asia's high altitude …

Changes in ecological conditions may influence intraguild competition: inferring interaction patterns of snow leopard with co-predators

R Pal, A Panwar, SP Goyal, S Sathyakumar - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Background Large-scale changes in habitat conditions due to human modifications and
climate change require management practices to consider how species communities can …

Understanding carnivore interactions in a cold arid trans‐Himalayan landscape: What drives co‐existence patterns within predator guild along varying resource …

P Justa, S Lyngdoh - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Predators compete for resources aggressively, forming trophic hierarchies that shape the
structure of an ecosystem. Competitive interactions between species are modified in the …

Revisiting the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) phylogeny in Himalaya: Addressing taxonomy, spatial extent and distribution of an ancient lineage in Asia

BD Joshi, S Lyngdoh, SK Singh, R Sharma, V Kumar… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Of the sub-species of Holarctic wolf, the Woolly wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is uniquely
adapted to atmospheric hypoxia and widely distributed across the Himalaya, Qinghai …

Dietary diversity and niche partitioning of carnivores across the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau of China using DNA metabarcoding

CE Hacker, W Cong, Y Xue, J Li, Y Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding predator guild resource use is vital for carnivore species preservation and
ecosystem function in high-altitude landscapes. We describe the dietary composition …

[HTML][HTML] Feeding ecology of the wolf (Canis lupus) in a near-natural ecosystem in Mongolia

N Tiralla, M Holzapfel, H Ansorge - Mammalian Biology, 2021 - Springer
The increasing animosity towards wolves (Canis lupus) by livestock-keeping nomads in
Mongolia and the accompanying conflicts highlight the urgent need for knowledge about the …

Feeding patterns of three widespread carnivores—the wolf, snow leopard, and red fox—in the Trans-Himalayan landscape of India

S Shrotriya, HS Reshamwala, S Lyngdoh… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Trans-Himalayan landscape is an extreme cold desert with limited diversity and a low
density of wild prey. The landscape has three widespread carnivores—the wolf Canis lupus …

Dietary and temporal partitioning facilitates coexistence of sympatric carnivores in the Everest region

H Zhong, F Li, JJ Díaz‐Sacco, K Shi - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carnivores, especially top predators, are important because they maintain the structure and
function of ecosystems by top‐down control. Exploring the coexistence between carnivores …

A Community-Based Conservation Initiative for Wolves in the Ladakh Trans-Himalaya, India

K Sonam, R Dorjay, M Khanyari, A Bijoor… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We describe a pilot community-based conservation initiative for wolves Canis lupus that
involves (i) voluntary deactivation of traditional trapping pits called Shandong,(ii) …