Assessing Variation in Wildlife Biodiversity in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan Using Ancillary Camera-trap Photos

McCarthy, Jennifer L.; McCarthy, Kyle P.; Fuller, Todd K.; McCarthy, Thomas M.

doi:10.1659/mrd-journal-d-09-00080.1

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“…Because of the strong Chinese economy the illegal trade in snow leopards increases, for instance with adjoining Mongolia (Wingard and Zahler 2006) and Afghanistan, where it is difficult to stop because of the current military situation there (Habibi 2004). With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1900s, in Kyrgyzstan and other recently independent states, increased unemployment and corruption in mountainous regions led to a growth in the black market trading in wildlife products (McCarthy et al 2010). For instance, in Kyrgyzstan people living in villages close to protected areas are poorly paid and in some cases have to resort to poaching wildlife within the park boundaries (McCarthy et al 2010).…”

Section: Illegal Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1900s, in Kyrgyzstan and other recently independent states, increased unemployment and corruption in mountainous regions led to a growth in the black market trading in wildlife products (McCarthy et al 2010). For instance, in Kyrgyzstan people living in villages close to protected areas are poorly paid and in some cases have to resort to poaching wildlife within the park boundaries (McCarthy et al 2010). Nowadays some of the former socialist republics continue to promote a sustainable developmental agenda (McCarthy et al 2010).…”

Section: Illegal Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, in Kyrgyzstan people living in villages close to protected areas are poorly paid and in some cases have to resort to poaching wildlife within the park boundaries (McCarthy et al 2010). Nowadays some of the former socialist republics continue to promote a sustainable developmental agenda (McCarthy et al 2010). Today, the level of poaching is lower, but in many of the former Soviet republics it continues.…”

Section: Illegal Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

“…McCarthy et al (2010) compared the composition of species in an unprotected area which is used for hunting by foreign companies and a strictly protected national park (Sary Chat) in the Tien Shan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan. Even though hunting is not permitted at Sary Chat, cases of poaching by rangers and local villagers are reported (Koshkarev and Vyrypaev 2000).…”

Section: Lack Of Awareness and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though hunting is not permitted at Sary Chat, cases of poaching by rangers and local villagers are reported (Koshkarev and Vyrypaev 2000). On the other hand, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Jangart was established as a foreign currency hunting reserve hosting non-nationals who come to Kyrgyzstan to hunt ungulates (McCarthy et al 2010). Unexpectedly, the numbers of photographs of ungulates recorded by camera traps in the unprotected area (Jangart) were higher than in the protected area for most species (McCarthy et al 2010).…”

Section: Lack Of Awareness and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Abundance and threats to the survival of the snow leopard – a review

Valentová

2017

European Journal of Environmental Sciences

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Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is an endangered species and its population size is steadily declining. This review attempts to introduce and analyse the main factors threatening its survival in each of the countries in which it occurs: China, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia. To conserve the remaining snow leopard populations, it is necessary to determine where it occurs in the various areas. Here, recent data on its worldwide distribution are presented. Snow leopard has a very secretive lifestyle, which makes it difficult to estimate its abundance. Therefore, I also present an overview of the methods, such as searching for signs of its presence, capture-recapture, predator : prey biomass ratios, photographic-capture rate and genetic analyses, used for estimating the abundance of snow leopard in different studies and discuss their advantages and disadvantages.

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Section: Illegal Tradementioning

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Abundance and threats to the survival of the snow leopard – a review

Valentová

2017

European Journal of Environmental Sciences

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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Newbold

Contu

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Ecology and Evolution

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The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.

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Using ancillary data to model the terrestrial distribution of gopher frogs

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An inherent challenge in managing rare or cryptic species is data deficiency. For this reason, ancillary data is a potentially valuable resource for generating key population estimates for priority species. We compiled ancillary commensal data collected between 1982 and 2020 during surveys of gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows to estimate the terrestrial distribution of gopher frogs (Rana capito) from potential breeding wetlands. Gopher frogs were detected in gopher tortoise burrows 30-3,879 m from identified wetlands. A global model of all records from all sites indicated that the probability of a gopher frog residing in a gopher tortoise burrow declined with increasing distance from a wetland. This pattern also held for 4 of 5 sites with a sufficient number of gopher frog detections to model independently. Based on the full data set, we estimated that 50%, 90%, and 99% of gopher frog observations occurred within 392 m, 1,019 m, and 2,752 m of the nearest wetland, respectively. Our results indicate a higher proportion of gopher frogs emigrate longer distances from wetlands than was previously reported using other methods, such as radio-telemetry.

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Assessing Variation in Wildlife Biodiversity in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan Using Ancillary Camera-trap Photos

Cited by 16 publications

References 14 publications

Abundance and threats to the survival of the snow leopard – a review

Abundance and threats to the survival of the snow leopard – a review

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

Using ancillary data to model the terrestrial distribution of gopher frogs

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