Fig 1.
Map of the study landscape with locations of all sloth bear fecal and hair samples collected shown in blue dots.
Tiger Reserve boundaries are indicated in orange.
Fig 2.
Results from genetic analysis of sloth bear fecal samples.
(a) Map of study landscape with 55 individually identified sloth bear locations represented as red dots. Tiger Reserve boundaries are indicated in orange. (b) Bar plots from STRUCTURE show the assignment probabilities for each bear to either of the two genetic clusters. The y-axis shows the calculated membership coefficient (q). (c) Spatial interpolation of admixture proportions from analysis in TESS. Individuals are shown in black dots, x and y axis indicate latitude and longitude respectively, and membership is indicated by the color ramp. All individuals with a single star on the top were identified as potential migrants in STRUCTURE, and individuals with two stars were identified as migrants in both STRUCTURE and GENECLASS.
Table 1.
Summary of genetic diversity in sloth bears from central India.
Table 2.
FST values between populations.
Fig 3.
Clustering results from DAPC and STRUCTURE.
(a) BIC plot from DAPC showing an elbow with an arrow at K = 2 (b) Mean Likelihood L(K) and standard deviations for K = 1–10 (dashed line) clusters over 10 independent runs and the estimate of ΔK using the Evanno et al. (2006) [44] approach (solid line).
Table 3.
Contemporary migration rates between sampled populations.