@inbook{80,
  author = {Samba Kumar and Ullas Karanth and James Nichols and Srinivas Vaidyanathan and Beth Gardner and Jagdish Krishnaswamy},
  title = {Conservation of Tropical Forest Ungulates: The Way Forward},
  abstract = {1. A clear understanding of the complex interplay among factors such as species-specific life-history traits, environmental characteristics and anthropogenic impacts is necessary to provide the basis for mounting species recovery efforts for ungulate populations in tropical forests. However, reliable assessment of such drivers of ungulate abundance patterns poses many methodological challenges. 2. The previous chapters of this monograph provided a rigorous hierarchical spatial modeling framework to assess factors governing ungulate-habitat relationships that influenced patterns of spatial distribution and densities of five large ungulate species in the Nagarahole-Bandipur landscape. Using our results, we also developed methods that objectively evaluated management effectiveness. 3. In this concluding chapter, we provide an overall perspective on understanding and managing tropical forest ungulates in the Nagarahole-Bandipur landscape and in regions beyond. Specifically, we outline the utility, as well some limitations, of the methods we deployed and the results we generated as lessons from a rigorous macro-ecological study. We also discuss how the effects of ecological and management related variables are species-specific, emphasizing the need for targeted and informed management interventions. 4. We describe the general tenets of a structured decision making approach to adaptive wildlife management that we propose for effectively managing ungulate populations in future. We conclude that the hierarchical modeling and estimation approach used in this study has much to offer for advancing such an adaptive management approach to our five study species in the Nagarahole-Bandipur landscape as well as to many other species in tropical forests where it is practical to implement similar monitoring methodologies.},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Spatial Dynamics and Ecology of Large Ungulate Populations in Tropical Forests of India},
  pages = {185-195},
  month = {01/2021},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address = {Singapore},
  isbn = {978-981-15-6934-0},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6934-0_5},
  language = {en},
}