Figure 1.
Location of the study area showing the spatial distribution of camera-traps and vehicle transect routes in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (2010 and 2011).
Figure 2.
Spatially unique localities of six small carnivore species in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (2010 and 2011).
Table 1.
Predictor variables tested for habitat suitability modeling of small carnivores in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.
Table 2.
Average estimates of Maxent distribution models for small carnivores in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (2010 and 2011).
Figure 3.
Response curves for the most significant predictors of habitat suitability of small carnivores according to the MaxEnt model.
The response curve is shown in different colours. Each colour represents a different species. The dark grey and light grey dotted lines represent 95% confidence intervals from 40 replicated runs.
Figure 4.
Habitat suitability maps of small carnivores based on MaxEnt models using environmental variables.
Average MaxEnt predictions from 40 runs for each species at the scale of 1×1 km resolution. The predicted probability of presence, with values ranging from 0 to 1, is depicted by different colours. Using the MaxEnt logistic output, red colours indicate a higher “probability of occurrence” (suitability) while the blue colours indicate lower probabilities.