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Figure 1. Study area location within prime snow leopard habitat
in the Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, northern Nepal where we
conducted snow leopard scat collection and Naur and livestock surveys
during Spring (April-May) 2012. Blue dots denote putative snow leopard
scat collection sites in the sampling grids (4*4km2).
Figure 2. Location points of individual snow leopard identified
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encounters: 0.75); Sigma- Encounter probability, Lamda- Detection
probability at trap location that considered home range, Psi- Data
augmentation parameter (the ratio of the number of animals actually
presents within S to the maximum allowable number), Nsuper- Population
size, and Density- Animals per 100 km2).