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Fine-scale population genetic structure of the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in a human-dominated western Terai Arc Landscape, India.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Singh Sujeet Kumar, Aspi Jouni, Kvist Laura, Sharma Reeta, Pandey Puneet, Mishra Sudhanshu, Singh Randeep, Agrawal Manoj, Goyal Surendra Prakash
Abstract excerpt
Despite massive global conservation strategies, tiger populations continued to decline until recently, mainly due to habitat loss, human-animal conflicts, and poaching. These factors are known to affect the genetic characteristics of tiger populations and decrease local effective population sizes. The Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) at the foothills of the Himalaya is one of the 42 source sites of tigers around the...
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