Responses of Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi population density to anthropogenic disturbance: refining estimates of its conservation status in Sabah

摘要: Extensive areas of tropical forests have been, and continue to be, disturbed as a result selective timber extraction. Although such anthropogenic disturbance typically results in the loss biodiversity, many species persist, their conservation production landscapes could be enhanced by greater understanding how biodiversity responds forest management practices. We conducted intensive camera-trap surveys eight protected Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, developed estimates Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi population density from spatially explicit capture–recapture analyses detection data investigate species’ abundance varies across landscape response disturbance. Estimates six were 1.39–3.10 individuals per 100 km2. Our study provides first evidence that is negatively affected hunting pressure fragmentation, among selectively logged forests, time since logging positively associated with abundance. argue these negative impacts mitigated improved practices, reducing access poachers effective gating destruction road points, deployment anti-poaching patrols. By calculating weighted mean estimate here literature, extrapolating this value an current available habitat, we there are 754 (95% posterior interval 325–1,337) leopards Sabah.