Fig 1.
Terai Arc Landscape showing five tiger bearing protected areas along with identified corridors and forest connectivity (in green) (top), above-ground biomass carbon stock (in tons of C per ha) (middle), and tiger occupancy (probability of occupancy, Psi) (bottom).
Fig 2.
Variation in mean tiger density (no of individuals per 0.33 km2) and above-ground biomass carbon stock (tons of carbon per km2) along with standard error bars categorized by eight habitat categories.
DS: degraded scrub; DSF: dry sal forest; HDMF: high density mixed forest; HDSF: high density sal forest; LDMF: low density mixed forest; LDSF: low density sal forest; TG: tall grassland; RF: riverine forest.
Fig 3.
Relationship between above-ground carbon stock and tiger posterior density estimates [33] along four individual forest categories, non-riverine forest, all forest habitat categories in sampling plot (n = 54) within the five protected areas in Terai Arc Landscape.
The dotted line represents the trend line. "r” represents Pearson correlation coefficient. NA represent correlation could not ascertain due to low sample size. I: low density mixed forest; II: high density mixed forest; III: high density sal forest; IV: tall grassland; V: low density sal forest; VI: dry sal forest; VII: degraded scrub; VIII: riverine Forest; IX: non-riverine forest habitat; X: overall forest habitat.
Fig 4.
Pixelated density map showing above-ground biomass carbon stock distribution (top) and tiger density (bottom) in Chitwan National Park (NP) and its buffer zone (BZ). Each pixel size is 0.33 km2.
Fig 5.
Relationship between above-ground biomass carbon stock and the probability of tiger occupancy (after Barber et al. [41]).
The dotted line represents the trend line.