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Mohammad Farhadinia, DPhil

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Publications

Cheetahs in Sahara

Iberian lynx rewilding

Iberian lynx rewilding

Perilous state of critically endangered Northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) across the Sudano-Sahel. Animal Conservation (2024)

Iberian lynx rewilding

Iberian lynx rewilding

Iberian lynx rewilding

Born to be wild: Captive-born and wild Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) reveal space-use similarities when reintroduced for species conservation concerns. Biological Conservation (2024)

Larger protected areas in borders

Asiatic cheetah's road to extinction

Asiatic cheetah's road to extinction

 Proximity and size of protected areas in Asian borderlands enable transboundary conservation, Frontiers in Conservation Science (2024).

Asiatic cheetah's road to extinction

Asiatic cheetah's road to extinction

Asiatic cheetah's road to extinction

Asiatic cheetah's road to extinction, Science (2023).

Economics of conservation law enforcement in Asia

Economics of conservation law enforcement in Asia

Economics of conservation law enforcement in Asia

Economics of conservation law enforcement by rangers across Asia. Conservation Letters (2023).

Performance of conservation translocations

Economics of conservation law enforcement in Asia

Economics of conservation law enforcement in Asia

Evaluating the performance of conservation translocations in large carnivores across the world. Biological Conservation (2023)

Animal behavior informed by history

Economics of conservation law enforcement in Asia

Animal behavior informed by history

Animal behavior informed by history: Was the Asiatic cheetah an obligate gazelle hunter? PlosONE (2023)

Trophy hunting in Asia

Different effects of climate change across a species range

Animal behavior informed by history

A review of the ecological and socioeconomic characteristics of trophy hunting across Asia, Animal Conservation (2023).

Different effects of climate change across a species range

Different effects of climate change across a species range

Different effects of climate change across a species range

 Spatially heterogeneous habitat use across distinct biogeographic regions in a wide-ranging predator, the Persian leopard Biodiversity and Conservation (2023).

Can Asian countries make 30 by 30?

Different effects of climate change across a species range

Different effects of climate change across a species range

 Current trends suggest most Asian countries are unlikely to meet future biodiversity targets on protected areas. Communications Biology (2022)

Trophy hunting is not one big thing

horizon for community-based conservation

horizon for community-based conservation

Trophy hunting is not one big thing. Biodiversity and Conservation (2023).

horizon for community-based conservation

horizon for community-based conservation

horizon for community-based conservation

What's on the horizon for community-based conservation? Emerging threats and opportunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. (2023).

Mitochondrial variation of caracal

horizon for community-based conservation

Mitochondrial variation of caracal

Mitochondrial DNA variation of the caracal (Caracal caracal) in Iran and range-wide phylogeographic comparisons. Mamm Biol (2022). 

Mineral lick use by herbivores

Structural Connectivity of Asia’s Protected Areas

Mitochondrial variation of caracal

Mineral lick use by a community of large herbivores in northern Iran, Ecology and Evolution (2023).

Structural Connectivity of Asia’s Protected Areas

Structural Connectivity of Asia’s Protected Areas

Structural Connectivity of Asia’s Protected Areas

Structural connectivity of Asia’s protected areas network: identifying the potential of transboundary conservation and cost-effective zones. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (2022)

Coat polymorphism in Eurasian Lynx

Coat Polymorphism in Eurasian Lynx: Adaptation to Environment or Phylogeographic Legacy? Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2021) 


Intraspecific interactions in leopards

Intraspecific interactions in a high-density leopard population. Ecology and Evolution. (2021).

Understanding debates about Asiatic cheetah conservation

Understanding debates about Asiatic cheetah conservation

Understanding debates about Asiatic cheetah conservation through media analysis, Conservation Science and Practice (2022)

Home range variation in leopards

Home range variation in leopards living across the human density gradient. Journal of Mammalogy. (2021). 

Land use management in mountains

Contrasting responses of carnivores to land use management in west Asia. Biodiversity and Conservation. (2021)

Low density of leopards in drylands

Low density of leopards in drylands

Estimating the density of a small population of leopards in central Iran using multi-session photographic‐sampling data. Mammalian Biology. (2021). 

Interactive effect of carnivores on conflict with humans

Interactive effect of carnivores on conflict with humans

Interactive effect of carnivores on conflict with humans

Wolves can suppress goodwill for leopards: Patterns of human-predator coexistence in northeastern Iran. Biological Conservation, 213, 210-217. (2017). 

Belt and Road Initiative and Illegal Wildlife Trade

Interactive effect of carnivores on conflict with humans

Interactive effect of carnivores on conflict with humans

Belt and Road Initiative may create new supplies for illegal wildlife trade in large carnivores. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(9), pp.1267-1268 (2019)

Hidden Markov models in decision-making

Interactive effect of carnivores on conflict with humans

Hidden Markov models in decision-making

Understanding decision making in a food-caching predator using hidden Markov models. Movement ecology, 8(1), p.9 (2020).

Anchoring and adjusting in leopards

Vertical relief for montane predators

Hidden Markov models in decision-making

Anchoring and adjusting amidst humans: Ranging behavior of Persian leopards along the Iran-Turkmenistan borderland. PlosONE, 13(5), p.e0196602 (2018)

Vertical relief for montane predators

Vertical relief for montane predators

Vertical relief for montane predators

Vertical relief facilitates spatial segregation of a high density large carnivore population in the Asian highlands. Oikos. (2020)

Gap analysis for management planning

Vertical relief for montane predators

Vertical relief for montane predators

Species or Space: a combined Gap analysis to guide management planning of protected areas. Landscape Ecology. (2020).

Ex situ management as insurance

Ex situ management as insurance against extinction of mammalian megafauna in an uncertain world. Conservation Biology. (2020).

Cross-border leopard populations in Asia

Big cats in borderlands: challenges and implications for transboundary conservation of Asian leopards. Oryx. (2020).

Predation patterns of leopards in borderland

Predation patterns of leopards in borderland

Persian leopard predation patterns and kill rates in the Iran–Turkmenistan borderland. Journal of Mammalogy, 99(3) 713-723. (2018). 

Allometric scaling of home range

Predation patterns of leopards in borderland

 Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements. Conservation Biology. (2020).

Wolf predation on ungulates

Predation by grey wolf on wild ungulates and livestock in central Iran, Journal of Zoology. 290: 127–134 (2013)..

Transboundary landscape connectivity

Landscape connectivity for mammalian megafauna along the Iran-Turkmenistan-Afghanistan borderland. Journal for Nature Conservation52: 125735. (2019).

Paradox of local abundance amidst regional rarity

Monitoring rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes

Monitoring rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes

A paradox of local abundance amidst regional rarity: the value of montane refugia for Persian leopard conservation. Scientific Reports. 9(1) 14622. (2019).

Monitoring rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes

Monitoring rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes

Monitoring rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes

Citizen science data facilitate monitoring of rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes. Ecological Indicators, 94, pp.283-291.(2018). 

Asiatic cheetah in Iran

Monitoring rare large carnivores in remote montane landscapes

Global decline of cheetahs

The critically endangered Asiatic cheetah in Iran: a review of recent distribution, and conservation status. Biodiversity and Conservation. 26(5) 1027-1046 (2017)

Global decline of cheetahs

Global decline of cheetahs

The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(3), pp.528-533. (2017). 

Performance of satellite telemetry

Performance of satellite telemetry

Right on track? Performance of satellite telemetry in terrestrial wildlife research. PlosONE, 14(5). (2019). 

Leopard status across its range

Performance of satellite telemetry

Leopard status, distribution, and the research efforts across its range. PeerJ, 4, p.e1974. (2016). 

Wandering barren deserts

Global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy

Global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy

Wandering the barren deserts of Iran: Illuminating high mobility of the Asiatic cheetah with sparse data. Journal of Arid Environments, 134, pp.145-149. (2016).

Global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy

Global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy

Global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy

Assessing global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy and richness by integrating local camera trap surveys. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26(8) 918-929. (2017).

Molecular and craniological analysis of leopard

Global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships

Molecular and craniological analysis of leopard in Iran: support for a monophyletic clade in Western Asia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114(4), pp.721-736. (2015).

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships: persistence of Persian leopard in the Iranian Caucasus. Biological Conservation, 191, pp.770-778. (2015). 

Low genetic variation in West Asian leopard

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships

Ecological correlates of the spatial co‐occurrence

Is there low maternal genetic variation in West Asian populations of leopard? Mammal Research, pp.1-8. (2020). 

Ecological correlates of the spatial co‐occurrence

Leveraging trans-boundary conservation partnerships

Ecological correlates of the spatial co‐occurrence

Ecological correlates of the spatial co‐occurrence of sympatric mammalian carnivores worldwide. Ecology letters, 21(9) 1401-1412. (2018). 

Attitudes towards human-leopard conflict

Socio-economic consequences of cattle predation by the Endangered Persian leopard in a Caucasian conflict hotspot, northern Iran. Oryx, 51(1) 124-130. (2017).

Intraspecific killing among leopards

Intraspecific killing among leopards in Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 64(3), pp.189-194. (2018). 

Predator–prey relationships

Exceptionally long movements of Asiatic cheetah

Predator–prey relationships in a middle Asian Montane steppe: Persian leopard versus urial wild sheep in Northeastern Iran. European Journal of Wildlife Research: 60(2): 341-349. (2014).

Exceptionally long movements of Asiatic cheetah

Feeding ecology of Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats

Exceptionally long movements of Asiatic cheetah

Movements of Asiatic cheetah across multiple arid reserves in central Iran. Oryx, 47(3), 427–430. (2013). 

Feeding ecology of Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats

Feeding ecology of Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats

Feeding ecology of Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats

Feeding ecology of the Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats in northeastern Iran: Implications for effective conservation. Journal of Arid Environments, 87: 206-211. (2012).

Prey of Persian Leopard in Golestan NP

Feeding ecology of Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats

Feeding ecology of Asiatic cheetah in low prey habitats

Prey of the Persian leopard in a mixed forest-steppe landscape in northeastern Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 62(1), pp.1-8. (2016).

Prey selection by Asiatic cheetah

Prey selection by critically endangered Asiatic cheetah in central Iran. Journal of Natural History, 44 (19–20): 1239–1249. (2010). 

Reproduction of brown bears

Litter sizes of brown bears in the Central Alborz Protected Area, Iran. Ursus, 22(2), 167-171. (2011). 

Sexual dimorphism in Persian leopard

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard

Patterns of sexual dimorphism in the Persian leopard and implications for sex differentiation. Zoology in the Middle East, 60(3), pp.195-207. (2014).

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard in Sarigol National Park, Zoology in the Middle East, 48:13-16. (2009).

Habitat preference of goitered gazelle

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard

Habitat preference of goitered gazelle

Goitered Gazelle: its habitat preference and conservation needs in Miandasht Wildlife Refuge, north-eastern Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 46: 9-18. (2009). 

Sex-age structure of ungulates

Reproductive ecology of Persian leopard

Habitat preference of goitered gazelle

Sex-age structure of bovids in Ghameshlou, Central Iran. Zoology in the Middle East. 51: 3-8. (2010).

Morphometric study of gazelles

Demographic baseline of brown bear

Status of caracal in central Iran

Morphological study and comparison of western and eastern goitered gazelle populations in Iran. International Journal of Environmental Research, (2011).

Status of caracal in central Iran

Demographic baseline of brown bear

Status of caracal in central Iran

Ecology and status of caracal in the Abbas Abad Naein Reserve, Iran. Zoology in the Middle East, 47(1) (2007).

Demographic baseline of brown bear

Demographic baseline of brown bear

Demographic baseline of brown bear

 A preliminary baseline status of the Syrian Brown Bear in Golestanak, northern Iran. Journal of Threatened Taxa, (2015). 

IUCN/SSC Newsletters

Transboundary conservation of leopards in West Asia/Caucasus

Transboundary conservation of leopards in West Asia/Caucasus

Transboundary conservation of leopards in West Asia/Caucasus

Priority areas for transboundary conservation of Persian  leopards in West Asia and the  Caucasus. Cat News. (2022).


Status of leopards in northern Iran and Central Asia

Transboundary conservation of leopards in West Asia/Caucasus

Transboundary conservation of leopards in West Asia/Caucasus

Status of Persian leopards in  northern Iran and Central Asia Cat News. (2022).


Mapping the distribution of Persian leopard

Transboundary conservation of leopards in West Asia/Caucasus

 Mapping the distribution and  habitat of Persian leopard across its historical range. Cat News. (2022).


Capturing an old problem leopards

Capturing an old problem Persian leopard close to the Iran-Turkmenistan border. Cat News. (2015).

Transboundary movements of Persian leopards

Transboundary movements of Persian leopards

GPS collars reveal transboundary movements by Persian leopards in Iran. Cat News. (2017). 

Recent review of Asiatic cheetahs

Transboundary movements of Persian leopards

A review of ecology and conservation status of Asiatic cheetah in Iran. Cat News. (2016).


The largest lesser cat in Iran

The largest lesser cat in Iran - current status of the Eurasian lynx. Cat News. (2016). 


Status assessment of the Pallas’s cat

Baseline information and status assessment of the Pallas’s cat in Iran. Cat News. (2016). 

Current state of knowledge on caracal

Current state of knowledge on caracal

The caracal in Iran - current state of knowledge and priorities for conservation, Cat News, (2016). 

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