Searching for a New Home or Rare Dispersal? Habitat Suitability and Landscape Connectivity of the Tibetan Brown Bear across the Indian Cold Deserts and the Tibetan Plateau
Vineet Kumar, Amira Sharief, Amar Paul Singh, Shahid Ahmad Dar, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Mukesh Kumar Thakur, Lalit Kumar Sharma
The paper assesses habitat suitability and landscape connectivity for the Tibetan brown bear across Ladakh and the Tibetan Plateau, finding functional connectivity rather than isolated dispersal.
bioRxiv · Jan 22, 2026 · PreprintEcology