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| Roy, M. | |
| Evaluating methods to monitor tiger abundance and its prey in Indian Sunderbans | |
| 2019 Full Book | |
Anthropogenic pressure has lead to increasing fragmentation and disconnected tiger occupied forest patches all over Asia. Sanderson et al. 2006 outlined the future persistence of this species being dependent on conservation measures that are rooted in protecting "representative, redundant, and resilient" populations across the historical range over which it has evolved. Diverse habitats are likely to produce dissimilar ecological adaptations and dynamics. Hence for minimizing extinction risks, one must adopt conservation strategies that focus not only on large tiger populations but the suite of unique adaptations of different populations. One such habitat, the mangroves, is exclusively represented by Sundarban. It supports one of the largest tiger populations across India and Bangladesh. However, there is a lacuna of information on this tiger population due to its man-eating reputation and logistic difficulties of sampling in a mangrove ecosystem subjected to the vagaries of tide. In this thesis, I have attempted to test and evaluate different methods for estimating tiger and its prey population in Sundarban that can be adopted as part of a monitoring programme. |
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