Title |
Clouded leopards, the secretive top-carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2006
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6785-6-16 |
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Authors |
Andreas Wilting, Frauke Fischer, Soffian Abu Bakar, K Eduard Linsenmair |
Abstract |
The continued depletion of tropical rainforests and fragmentation of natural habitats has led to significant ecological changes which place most top carnivores under heavy pressure. Various methods have been used to determine the status of top carnivore populations in rainforest habitats, most of which are costly in terms of equipment and time. In this study we utilized, for the first time, a rigorous track classification method to estimate population size and density of clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa) in Tabin Wildlife Reserve in north-eastern Borneo (Sabah). Additionally, we extrapolated our local-scale results to the regional landscape level to estimate clouded leopard population size and density in all of Sabah's reserves, taking into account the reserves' conservation status (totally protected or commercial forest reserves), their size and presence or absence of clouded leopards. |
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India | 1 | 100% |
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India | 5 | 2% |
United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
Brazil | 4 | 1% |
Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
Japan | 2 | <1% |
Czechia | 2 | <1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
Chile | 1 | <1% |
Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
Other | 8 | 3% |
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Student > Master | 56 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 16% |
Student > Bachelor | 33 | 11% |
Other | 18 | 6% |
Other | 49 | 16% |
Unknown | 29 | 9% |
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Environmental Science | 62 | 20% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 8 | 3% |
Social Sciences | 7 | 2% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 1% |
Other | 8 | 3% |
Unknown | 36 | 12% |