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Tiger Ecology in Relation to Monitoring Issues

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Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations

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Early naturalists recorded descriptive accounts of tigers in tropical Asia during the past two to three centuries (Karanth 2001).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), New York, NY, USA

    K. Ullas Karanth & Dale G. Miquelle

  2. Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

  3. Wildlife Conservation Society, India Program, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

  4. National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR, Bengaluru, India

    K. Ullas Karanth

  5. Panthera, New York, NY, USA

    John M. Goodrich

  6. Department of Ecology, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia

    Dale G. Miquelle

  7. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

    Krishnamurthy Ramesh

  8. Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Krishnamurthy Ramesh

  9. Tiger Program, Panthera, New York, NY, USA

    Abishek Harihar

  10. Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysuru, India

    Abishek Harihar

  11. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Thailand Program, Bangkok, Thailand

    Anak Pattanavibool

  12. Department of Conservation, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Anak Pattanavibool

  13. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Sunarto Sunarto

  14. Forum HarimauKita, Bogor, Indonesia

    Sunarto Sunarto

  15. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    D. Mark Rayan

  16. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent, Kent, UK

    D. Mark Rayan

  17. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) – Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Kanchan Thapa

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Karanth, K.U. et al. (2017). Tiger Ecology in Relation to Monitoring Issues. In: Karanth, K., Nichols, J. (eds) Methods For Monitoring Tiger And Prey Populations. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5436-5_2

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