Spatial ecology and conservation of tigers and their prey in the central Terai landscape, India

摘要: Protected areas (PAs) worldwide provide habitat and resources for imperiled species and help maintain intact ecological systems. However, PAs vary in the extent to which they support viable populations of imperiled species (Hokestra et al. 2005). Many PAs are too small for highly mobile mammals whose persistence requires additional resources from areas beyond extant PA boundaries (Smith et al. 1998). To maintain ecologically effective population sizes