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Bhattacharjee, Subhadeep
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Kumar, Vinod
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Chandrasekhar, Mithileshwari
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Malviya, Manjari
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Ganswindt, Andre
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Ramesh, Krishnamurthy
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Sankar, Kalyanasundaram
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Umapathy, Govindhaswamy
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Senthilkumaran, Balasubramanian |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2015-09-28T06:44:54Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-09-28T06:44:54Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015-06-10 |
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dc.description |
S1 Fig. Parallelism between pooled serial dilution of tiger’s fecal extract (square) and respective
cortisol standard (circle). |
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S2 Fig. Different levels of anthropogenic disturbance and ST2 tigress movements prior to
scat deposition during the study period in Sariska Tiger Reserve (May 2011—January
2013). |
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S3 Fig. Different levels of anthropogenic disturbance and ST3 tigress movements prior to
scat deposition during the study period in Sariska Tiger Reserve (May 2011—January
2013). |
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S4 Fig. Different levels of anthropogenic disturbance and ST4 tiger movements prior to
scat deposition during the study period in Sariska Tiger Reserve (May 2011—January
2013). |
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S5 Fig. Different levels of anthropogenic disturbance and ST5 tigress movements prior to
scat deposition during the study period in Sariska Tiger Reserve (May 2011—January
2013). |
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S6 Fig. Different levels of anthropogenic disturbance and ST6 tiger movements prior to
scat deposition during the study period in Sariska Tiger Reserve (May 2011—January
2013). |
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dc.description.abstract |
Tiger (Panthera tigris), an endangered species, is under severe threat from poaching, habitat
loss, prey depletion and habitat disturbance. Such factors have been reported causing
local extermination of tiger populations including in one of the most important reserves in
India, namely Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in northwestern India. Consequently, tigers
were reintroduced in STR between 2008 and 2010, but inadequate breeding success was
observed over the years, thus invoking an investigation to ascertain physiological correlates.
In the present study, we report glucocorticoid stress responses of the reintroduced tigers
in relation to anthropogenic disturbance in the STR from 2011 to 2013. We found
anthropogenic disturbance such as encounter rates of livestock and humans, distance to
roads and efforts to kill domestic livestock associated with an elevation in fecal glucocorticoid
metabolite (fGCM) concentrations in the monitored tigers. In this regard, female tigers
seem more sensitive to such disturbance than males. It was possible to discern that tiger’s
fGCM levels were significantly positively related to the time spent in disturbed areas. Resulting
management recommendations include relocation of villages from core areas and restriction
of all anthropogenic activities in the entire STR. |
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am2015 |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
National Tiger Conservation Authority of
India (NTCA), Central Zoo Authority of India,
Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of
India, Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) and the Ministry of Science and
Technology. |
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http://www.plosone.org |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Bhattacharjee S, Kumar V, Chandrasekhar M, Malviya M, Ganswindt A, Ramesh K, Sankar K & Umapathy G. (2015) Glucocorticoid Stress Responses of Reintroduced Tigers in Relation to Anthropogenic Disturbance in Sariska Tiger Reserve in India. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127626. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127626. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1932-6203 |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1371/journal.pone.0127626 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50048 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Public Library of Science |
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dc.rights |
© 2015 Bhattacharjee et al. This is an
open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Poaching |
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Tiger populations |
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Sariska Tiger Reserve, India |
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Tiger (Panthera tigris) |
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Habitat loss |
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Habitat disturbance |
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Prey depletion |
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Endangered species |
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dc.title |
Glucocorticoid stress responses of reintroduced tigers in relation to anthropogenic disturbance in Sariska Tiger Reserve in India |
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dc.type |
Article |
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