Comprehensive assessment of snow leopard distribution and population in the Indian Trans-Himalaya, Ladakh: Standardizing methods for evidence-based conservation

• Pankaj Raina ,

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

  * E-mail: yvjhala@gmail.com (YVJ), pankaj.acf@live.com (PR)

  Affiliations Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-4883

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• Ninad Avinash Mungi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India, Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

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• Ujjwal Kumar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India, Tiger Cell, National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4215-8781

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• Aman Deep Rathi,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

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• Niazul H. Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

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• Dimpi A. Patel,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India

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• Anchal Bhasin,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India

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• Shikha Bisht,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India, Tiger Cell, National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi, India

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• Lex Hiby,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Conservation Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Bivash Pandav,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

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• Mohd. Sajid Sultan,

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India

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• Jigmet Jigmet Takpa,

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Protection, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, India

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• Yadvendradev V. Jhala

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yvjhala@gmail.com (YVJ), pankaj.acf@live.com (PR)

  Affiliations Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India, Indian National Science Academy, Hosted at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

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