Table 1.

Total effort for collecting scat samples at the seven study sites and amplification success with species-specific primer and microsatellite loci.

site	area (km2)	distance walked (km)	no. transects	scats collected	snow leopard (species-specific primer)	amplification for all seven loci
Lingti	240	122	24	53	41	15
Lossar	219	106	21	50	10	3
Kibber	411	133	28	44	30	15
Pin	270	110	22	24	16	2
Tabo	341	131	26	46	31	10
Rumtse	300	117	23	43	28	8
Tost	250	132	27	45	35	n.a.a

^aSnow leopard population at Tost was estimated using camera trapping.