Spatiotemporal patterns of Amur leopards in northeast China: Influence of tigers, prey, and humans

摘要: Abstract The Amur leopard Panthera pardus orientalis is one of the most endangered cat subspecies in world. rare sympatric with tiger tigris altaica and their prey human dominated landscape. To conserve felid species, it important to understand activity patterns leopards, including its interactions tigers, prey, activities. We used a data set from 163 camera traps quantify spatial-temporal overlap between disturbances (e.g., humans presence on foot, vehicles, domestic dogs, cattle grazing) January December 2013 Hunchun Nature Reserve, NE China. Our results indicated that leopards were more active daytime twilight; seasonal overlaps tigers lower than species. Human activities grazing could influence spatial distribution therefore, conservation actions should focus reduction minimize impacts patterns.