... optimistic for much of tiger habitat. In addition to this estimate of home range size, our available information suggests that, as has been noted by Russian biologists here, and for Bengal tigers in Nepal, adult female tigers are territorial. Therefore, we can expect that every 450 km2 of tiger habitat can maintain only one adult breeding female tiger. These two pieces ... rule is complicated by the fact that these estimates are actually based on "effective population size", which depends upon, among other things, the relative number of young produced by each male and female that surviv...

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