Status assessment of the Endangered snow leopard Panthera unciaand other large mammals in the Kyrgyz Alay, using community knowledge corrected for imperfect detection

• Published in: Oryx
• Main Authors: Taubmann, Julia, Sharma, Koustubh, Uulu, Kubanychbek Zhumabai, Hines, James E., Mishra, Charudutt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Polo; Ursus arctos; Lynx; Lynx lynx lynx
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605315000502; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030605315000502

Abstract The Endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia occurs in the Central Asian Mountains, which cover c. 2 million km 2 . Little is known about its status in the Kyrgyz Alay Mountains, a relatively narrow stretch of habitat connecting the southern and northern global ranges of the species. In 2010...