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We obtained 138 independent captures of 24 adult snow leopardsacross ten sampling sites (Table 1). The estimates of livestockabundance, wild prey abundance, livestock stocking densities, wildprey densities, human population size and ruggedness are presentedin Table 1.The sites showed considerable variation in wild prey abundanceand density (abundance ranging from 5 to 433 and density rangingfrom 0.05 to 3.86/km2; Table 2) as well as livestock abundance andstocking densities (abundance ranging from zero at one site to5215 livestock heads at a site visited by nomadic herders; stockingdensity ranging from zero to 57.23 livestock heads per km2). Theobserver detection probability for the double observer surveysfor estimating wild prey abundance ranged from 0.61 to 1 acrossobservers and sites (Table 2).Exploratory analysis using scatterplots indicated a monotonicrelationship of RUI with wild prey density and a quadratic relationshipwith livestock stocking density (Fig. 2a and b). There appearedto be a quadratic relationship between wild prey density/km2 andlivestock stocking density/km2 (Fig. 3).
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