Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan ...

• Main Authors: Shehzad, Wasim, Ali Nawaz, Muhammad, Pompanon, François, Coissac, Eric, Riaz, Tiayyba, Ali Shah, Safdar, Taberlet, Pierre
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2014
• Subjects: blocking oligonucleotide; human-carnivore conflict; Next Generation Sequencing; Panthera pardus; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm1; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.87rm1

Human–carnivore conflict is one of the major challenges in the management of populations of large carnivores. Concerns include the increasing human population; habitat loss as a result of degradation and fragmentation of forest; and livestock predation as a result of a lack of natural prey, leading to retaliatory killings of wild carnivores. Conflicts may be further aggravated by occasional attacks that result in injury and loss of human life. The level of consumption of prey species by a predator is a benchmark to evaluate the scale of this conflict. We used a newly developed DNA-based diet analysis to study the prey profile of common leopards Panthera pardus in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan. The results suggest that the common leopard is a generalist predator, subsisting mainly on domestic animals. Based on the frequency of occurrence of prey items in 57 faecal samples, the diet of the leopard is dominated by domestic goat Capra hircus (64.9%), followed by domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris (17.5%) and ... : Unique sequences generated initially by NGS sequencingcontains files with unique sequences generated by next generation sequencingpp_bk_uniq#_sort.xlspp_uniq#_sort_l60c99_clean_rc_tag#_dryadThe sequences after cleaning the datapp_bk_filtered_dataContains file having data after filtration. The final result file for common leopard diet in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan ...