Gray literature and data from unpublished sources can provide important scientific
information that has not been published scientifically. The Persian leopard (hereafter …

Land use changes in suitable areas, habitat loss, and fragmentation are likely to be the most
important consequences of climate change for wildlife populations. Yet, little is known about …

The conservation of top predators' habitats such as the leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of
the most effective ways to conserve biodiversity because of wide home range and habitat …

This study was conducted in the Lorestan Province in the west of Iran with two objectives of
identifying major environmental variables in spatial risk modeling and identifying spatial risk …

Top predators such as leopard Panthera spp. are often associated with high biodiversity, so
the protection of their habitats is one of the most effective ways to conserve biodiversity …

Due to the relatively low offspring survival rate, surviving adult leopards play a critical role in
the species' viability. The unnatural mortality of leopards, caused by human activities can …

The maximum entropy (Maxent) model was used to predict the distribution of Persian
leopards and wild sheep in the Tang-e-Sayad protected area in Iran. For this purpose, eight …

We describe the use of camera-trap** with capture-recapture, occupancy and visitation
rate modelling to study the size, demographic structure and distribution of the Persian …

It is important to predict how many individuals of a predator species can survive in a given
area on the basis of prey sufficiency and to compare predictive estimates with actual …

Nine subspecies names have been designated for the leopard in the Middle East: Arabian
or South Arabian Panthera pardus nimr (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833); Anatolian or Asia …