Genetics Archives - WildCats Conservation Alliance

Coexistence with tigers, large carnivore attacks

Large carnivore attacks on humans in central India: A case study from the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve

By Conservation Papers

Abstract We examined human and ecological attributes of attacks by tigers Panthera tigris and leopards Panthera pardus on humans in and around the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in the Chandrapur District...

20th September 2018

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Species, sex and geo-location identification of seized tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) parts in Nepal

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Tiger (Panthera tigris) populations are in danger across their entire range due to habitat loss, poaching and the demand for tiger parts. The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is...

17th September 2018

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Evaluating the effect of forest loss and agricultural expansion on Sumatran tigers from scat surveys

By estherconwayConservation Papers, News

A new conservation paper has used Sumatran tiger genetics from poo to analyse how tiger populations across the island of Sumatra have been affected by high rates of habitat loss…

23rd May 2018

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Maintaining tiger connectivity and minimizing extinction into the next century

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Habitat loss is the greatest threat to large carnivores around the world. Maintenance of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes is important for long-term species persistence. Here, we merge landscape...

10th January 2018

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Fine-scale population genetic structure of the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in a human-dominated western Terai Arc Landscape, India

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Despite massive global conservation strategies, tiger populations continued to decline until recently, mainly due to habitat loss, human-animal conflicts, and poaching. These factors are known to affect the genetic...

26th April 2017

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Planning tiger recovery: Understanding intraspecific variation for effective conservation

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Although significantly more money is spent on the conservation of tigers than on any other threatened species, today only 3200 to 3600 tigers roam the forests of Asia, occupying...

26th June 2016

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Tiger (Panthera tigris) scent DNA: a valuable conservation tool for individual identification and population monitoring

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Genetic monitoring of tiger source populations is a conservation priority, yet due to low sample sizes and poor DNA quality, scat DNA has failed to produce the powerful studies...

1st June 2015

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Genetic Ancestry of the Extinct Javan and Bali Tigers

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract The Bali (Panthera tigris balica) and Javan (P. t. sondaica) tigers are recognized as distinct tiger subspecies that went extinct in the 1940s and 1980s, respectively. Yet their genetic...

1st May 2015

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Prioritizing Tiger Conservation

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Even with global support for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation their survival is threatened by poaching, habitat loss and isolation. Currently about 3,000 wild tigers persist in small fragmented populations...

24th November 2014

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Connectivity of Tiger Populations in the Human-Influenced Forest Mosaic of Central India

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Today, most wild tigers live in small, isolated Protected Areas within human dominated landscapes in the Indian subcontinent. Future survival of tigers depends on increasing local population size, as...

25th November 2013

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Demographic loss, genetic structure and the conservation implications for Indian tigers

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract India is home to approximately 60 per cent of the world’s remaining wild tigers, a species that has declined in the last few centuries to occupy less than 7...

25th May 2013

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Spatial genetic analysis reveals high connectivity of tiger populations of Central India

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract We investigated the spatial genetic structure of the tiger meta-population in the Satpura–Maikal landscape of central India using population- and individual-based genetic clustering methods on multilocus genotypic data from...

2nd October 2012

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Pathogen evolution and disease emergence in carnivores

By estherconwayConservation Papers, WVI CDV

Abstract Emerging infectious diseases constitute some of the most pressing problems for both human and domestic animal health, and biodiversity conservation. Currently it is not clear whether the removal of...

25th December 2007

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