About the Authors

Charlotte E. Hacker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China, Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Snow Leopard Conservancy, Sonoma, California, United States of America

Wei Cong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

Yunchuan Dai

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Ecology and Environmental Resources, Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, Chongqing, China

Jia Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

Ye Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

Diqiang Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

Rodney Jackson

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Ecology and Environmental Resources, Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences, Chongqing, China

Jan E. Janecka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yugzhang@sina.com.cn (YZ); janeckaj@duq.edu (JEJ)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yuguang Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yugzhang@sina.com.cn (YZ); janeckaj@duq.edu (JEJ)

Affiliation Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Beijing, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.