M. B. Hutajulu's scientific contributions

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At least six species of wild cats live in Sumatra. Many are globally threatened and yet their ecology is poorly understood. We investigated ecological characteristics and spatial and temporal overlap among cats in central Sumatra using data from systematic and opportunistic camera trapping in five major forest blocks. We developed occupancy models...

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... While tiger occupancy was higher in areas with abundant wild prey and declined in response to increasing human and livestock densities, leopard occupancy was higher in sites used extensively by livestock (Kafley et al. 2019). Leopards are known to avoid tigers by changing their niche breath or space use (Steinmetz et al. 2013, Sunarto et al. 2015. When prey is scarce, leopards and tigers can co-occur, probably because they are attracted to the same areas that are poor for feeding (e.g. ...