Juan Li

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Department of Health and Environmental Science

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) inhabits the rugged mountains in 12 countries of Central Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau. Due to poaching, decreased abundance of prey, and habitat degradation, it was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 1972. Current conservation strategies, including nature reserves a...

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is an apex predator on the Tibetan Plateau and in the surrounding mountain ranges. It is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN's Red List. The large home range and low population densities of this species mandate range-wide conservation prioritization. Two efforts for range-wide snow leopard conservation planning have b...

Globally, massive carnivore guild extirpations have led to trophic downgrading and compromised ecosystem services. However, the complexity of multi-carnivore food webs complicates accurate identification of species interactions and community organization. Here, we used fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate three communities that together encompass...

Wildlife provides food, medicine, clothing, and other necessities for humans, but overexploitation can disrupt the sustainability of wildlife resources and severely threaten global biodiversity. Understanding the characteristics of consumer behavior is helpful for wildlife managers and policy makers, but the traditional survey methods are laborious...

The snow leopard, Panthera uncia, is an elusive high-altitude specialist that inhabits vast, inaccessible habitat across Asia. We conducted the first range-wide genetic assessment of snow leopards based on noninvasive scat surveys. Thirty-three microsatellites were genotyped and a total of 683-bp of mitochondrial DNA sequenced in 70 individuals. Sn...

The community structure of grand-dwelling vertebrates in the Wanglang Natural Reserve, Sichuan Province, was examined in relation to a wide range of habitat changes associated with logging, tourism, and restoration measures. Eight sampling sites from a range of habitats were monitored using drift-fences and pitfall traps from August to November 200...

In Qinghai, China, on the Tibetan Plateau, is the Sanjiangyuan, or "Three Rivers Region." As the headwaters of three of the world's greatest rivers, it provides water to more than a billion people downstream, and at the source it includes some of the best snow leopard habitat in China. China is vital for the long-term persistence of this species ac...

With noninvasive sampling, 277 fecal samples were collected from dominant distribution areas of snow leopard (Uncia uncia), including Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve (Qinghai Province), Qiangtang National Nature Reserve (Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nanshan area (Danghe, Gansu Province). Species identification, individual recognition and genet...

In recent months our conservation and research consortium, made up of the Chinese NGO Shan Shui, Peking University, and international NGOs, Panthera and Snow Leopard Trust, has published manuscripts in Biological Conservation (Li et al. 2013a) and Conservation Biology (Li et al. 2013b) that detail the results of our studies on human-snow leopard co...

The snow leopard is a keystone species in mountain ecosystems of Central Asia and the Tibetan Plateau. However, little is known about the interactions between snow leopards and sympatric carnivores. Using infrared cameras, we found a rocky junction of two valleys in Sanjiangyuan area on the Tibetan Plateau where many mammals in this area passed and...

Snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large cat which is thought to have originated from the Tibetan Plateau. It occurs in rugged mountains across Central Asia and the Tibetan Plateau. As a flagship species, it plays an important role in these mountain ecosystems. It was listed as Endangered by IUCN in 1972, and China classified it as the First Class...