Implications of landscape genetics and connectivity of snow leopard in the Nepalese Himalayas for its conservation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/20:10422075
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76912-7" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76912-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76912-7" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-020-76912-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Implications of landscape genetics and connectivity of snow leopard in the Nepalese Himalayas for its conservation
Original language description
The snow leopard is one of the most endangered large mammals. Its population, already low, is declining, most likely due to the consequences of human activity, including a reduction in the size and number of suitable habitats. With climate change, habitat loss may escalate, because of an upward shift in the tree line and concomitant loss of the alpine zone, where the snow leopard lives. Migration between suitable areas, therefore, is important because a decline in abundance in these areas may result in inbreeding, fragmentation of populations, reduction in genetic variation due to habitat fragmentation, loss of connectivity, bottlenecks or genetic drift. Here we use our data collected in Nepal to determine the areas suitable for snow leopards, by using habitat suitability maps, and describe the genetic structure of the snow leopard within and between these areas. We also determine the influence of landscape features on the genetic structure of its populations and reveal corridors connecting suitable areas. We conclude that it is necessary to protect these natural corridors to maintain the possibility of snow leopards' migration between suitable areas, which will enable gene flow between the diminishing populations and thus maintain a viable metapopulation of snow leopards.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-36098G" target="_blank" >GB14-36098G: Center for tropical biology</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
19853
UT code for WoS article
000595259200025
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85096075802