Correspondence regarding 'Clouded leopards, the secretive top-carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: Their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia'

BMC Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gordon, Chris H ^a   Stewart, Anne Marie E ^a   Meijaard, Erik ^a  

^a THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FELIDAE; MALAYSIA; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FELIDAE; MALAYSIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 34547528137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-7-5     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Selous EM, Banks E: The clouded leopard in Sarawak. Sarawak Museum Journal 1935, 4:263-266.
2. Wilting A, Fischer F, Bakar SA, Linsenmair KE: Clouded leopards, the secretive top-carnivore of South-East Asian rainforests: their distribution, status and conservation needs in Sabah, Malaysia. BMC Ecology 2006, 6:1 -27.
3. Rabinowitz AR, Andau P, Chai PPK: The clouded leopard in Malaysian Borneo. Oryx 1987, 21:107-111.
4. Gordon CH, Stewart AE: The use of logging roads by a solitary felid, the clouded leopard. J Trop Ecol . (in review)
5. Austin SC: Ecology of sympatric carnivores in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. In PhD Dissertation Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University-College Station, Kingsville and College Station; 2002.
6. Grassman LI Jr, Tewes ME, Silvy NJ, Kreetiyutanont K: Ecology of three sympatric felids in a mixed evergreen forest in North-Central Thailand. J Mamm 2005, 86:29-38.
7. Kawanishi K: Population status of tigers (Panthera tigris) in a primary rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia. In PhD thesis University of Florida, Gainesville, USA; 2002.
8. Kitchener AC, Beaumont MA, Richardson D: Geographical variation in the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa, reveals two species. Current Biology 2006, 16:2377-2383.
9. Riordan P: Unsupervised recognition of individual tigers and snow leopards from their footprints. Anim Conserv 1998, 1:253-262.
10. Karanth KU, Nichols JD, Seidensticker J, Dinerstein E, Smith JLD, McDougal C, Johnsingh AJT, Chundawat RS, Thapar V: Science deficiency in conservation practice: the monitoring of tiger populations in India. Anim Conserv 2003, 6:1-10.
11. Sharma S, Jhala Y, Sawarkar VB: Identification of individual tigers (Panthera tigris) from their pugmarks. J Zool 2005, 267:9-18.
12. Karanth KU, Nichols JD: Estimating tiger densities in India from camera trap data using photographic captures and recaptures. Ecology 1998, 79:2852-2862.
13. Smallwood KS, Fitzhugh EL: A rigorous technique for identifying individual Mountain Lions Fells concolor by their tracks. Biol Conserv 1993, 65:51-59.
14. Grigione MM, Burman P, Bleich VC, Pierce BM: Identifying individual mountain lions Fells concolor by their tracks: refinement of an innovative technique. Biol Conserv 1999, 88:25-32.
15. Lewison R, Fitzhugh EL, Galentine SP: Validation of a rigorous track classification technique: identifying individual mountain lions. Biol Conserv 2001, 99:313-321.
16. Nowell K, Jackson P: Wild cats: Status, Survey and Conservation Action Plan. Gland IUCN 1996.
17. Benson JF, Chamberlain MJ, Leopold BD: Regulation of space use in a solitary felid: population density or prey availability? Animal Behaviour 2006, 71:685-693.
18. Bennett EL, Dahaban Z: Wildlife responses to disturbances in Sarawak and their implications for forest management. In Ecology, conservation and management of Southeast Asian rainforests Edited by: Primack RB, Lovejoy TE. New Haven & London: Yale University Press; 1995:66-86.
19. Bennett EL, Gumal MT: The inter-relationships of commercial logging, hunting and wildlife in Sarawak, and recommendations for forest management. In The Cutting Edge: Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forest Edited by: Fimbel RA, Grajal A, Robinson JG. New York: Columbia University Press; 2001:359-374.
20. Meijaard E: The biogeographic history of the Javan leopard Panthera pardus based on a craniometric analysis. J Mamm 2004, 85:302-310.
21. Puri RK: Bulungan ethnobiology handbook. A field manual for biological and social science research on the knowledge and use of plants and animals among 18 indigenous groups in northern East Kalimantan. CIFOR Indonesia 2001.
22. Stewart AE, Gordon CH, Meijaard E: Practitioners guide to rapid mammal surveys as a tool for HCVF assessments in Borneo: A guide applicable to tropical rainforests in South-East Asia The Nature Conservancy, Samarinda, Indonesia; 2007.
23. BBC News: Island leopard deemed new species. [http://news.bbc. co.uk/]. Downloaded on 15 March
24. Buckley-Beason VA, Johnson WE, Nash WG, Stanyon R, Menninger JC, Driscoll CA, Howard JG, Bush M, Page JE, Roelke ME, Stone G, Martelli P, Wen C, Ling L, Duraislngam RK, Lam VP, O'Brien SJ: Molecular evidence for species-level distinctions in clouded leopards. Curr Biol 2006, 16:2371-2376.
25. Wilting A, Buckley-Beason VA, Feldhaar H, Gadau J, O'Brien SJ, Linsenmair KE: Clouded leopard phylogeny revisited: support for species recognition and population division between Borneo and Sumatra. Front Zool 2007, 4:15.