Fig 1.
Map showing study area landscape boundary of chotta nagpur plateau and lower gangetic plains provinces in India.
Fig 2.
Map showing sampling grids in the study landscape.
The red colour grids are those where presence was recorded in primary data, and blue grids presence was based on secondary records.
Table 1.
List of 12 selected variables out of 23 variables after multi-collinearity analysis for habitat suitability modelling for Indian Grey Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) in the study landscape (Cotta Nagpur Plateau and Lower Gangetic Plain).
Fig 3.
Probability distribution map showing the suitable habitats for Canis lupus pallipes in the study landscape.
Fig 4.
Jackknife test for all the twelve variables.
Blue bar = Shows importance of each variables in explaining the variation in the data when used separately. Green bar = loss in total model gain when the particular variable was dropped, signifies the presence of unique information necessary for explaining the model. Red bar = total model gain.
Fig 5.
Relation between mean suitability, range suitability and sum of suitability score obtained by PAs.
Values were derived from the zonal statistics calculation for all 42 protected areas extracted from the model output. X axis = Protected area, Y axis = Suitability range score for each PAs. Color ramp depicts the sum value of suitability score size of circle represents mean suitability values obtained by respective PAs.
Fig 6.
Map showing predicted movement corridors of Indian Grey Wolf in the study landscape.