PETER ZAHLER

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McCarthy T., Mallon D., and P. Zahler. 2023. What is a snow leopard? Biogeography and status review. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards (2nd Edition). Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Sanderson E.W., Breitenmoser U., Bürki R., Breitenmoser-Würsten C., Fisher K., Lanz T., Mallon D., McCarthy T., and P. Zahler. 2023. Global strategies for snow leopard conservation: A spot-joining synthesis. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards (2nd Edition). Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Zahler P and R. Paley. 2023. Building governance structures and institutions for community conservation. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards (2nd Edition). Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Zahler P. and R. Victurine. 2023. Linear infrastructure and snow leopard conservation. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards (2nd Edition). Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Rosen T. and P. Zahler. 2023. Snow leopards and transboundary conservation. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards (2nd Edition). Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Moheb Z., Nelson M.F., Ostrowski O., Zahler P., Bowlick F.J., and T.K. Fuller. 2023. Factors influencing the diurnal spring distribution of sympatric urial and Siberian ibex in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Wakhan National Park, Afghanistan. Global Ecology and Conservation, 43: June 2023, e02423.

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Moheb, Z., Fuller, T.K., and P. Zahler. 2023. Snow leopard-human conflict as a conservation challenge – A review. Snow Leopard Reports, 1: 11-24.

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Moheb Z., Rajabi A.M., Jahid N., Ostrowski S., Zahler P. and T.K. Fuller. 2022. Using double-observer survey methods to monitor spring urial and ibex populations in the Hindu Kush of Wakhan National Park, Afghanistan. Oryx, 1-7.

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Zahler P. 2021. AZA climate change position paper. Association of Zoos and Aquariums. https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2332/aza_climate_change_position_paper.pdf

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Zahler P. and J. Wingard. 2018. Central Asia regional report. In: European Union: Larger than tigers: Inputs for a strategic approach to biodiversity conservation in Asia. European Union Biodiversity for Life, capacity4dev.eu, 1-105.

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Z., Mostafawi S.N., Zahler P. and T.K. Fuller. 2018. Markhor and Siberian ibex occurrence and conservation in northern Afghanistan. Caprinae News, IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group, 4-7.

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Khan M., Siddiqui P.A., Raza A., and P. Zahler. 2018. Status of flare-horned markhor (Capra falconeri falconeri) in Jutial Conservancy, District Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology. 15(2): 343-349.

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McCarthy T., Zahler P., Mallon D., Jackson R., and K. McCarthy. 2017. Snow leopard status is spot on. Nature. doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-08378-z.

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McCarthy T., Mallon D., Jackson R., Zahler P. and McCarthy K. 2017. Panthera uncia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22732A50664030. Downloaded on 24 September 2017.

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Sanderson E., Mallon D., McCarthy T., Zahler P., and K. Fisher. 2016. Global strategies for snow leopard conservation: A synthesis. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards. Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Zahler P and R. Paley. 2016. Building governance structures and institutions for community conservation. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards. Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Jowkar H., Ostrowski S., Tahbaz M., and P. Zahler. 2016. The conservation of biodiversity in Iran: threats, challenges and hopes. Iranian Studies, 49(6) : 1065-1077.

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Zahler P., Wilkie D., Painter M., and J.C. Carter. 2016. The role of conservation in promoting stability and security in at-risk communities. In: Bruch C., Muffett C. and S. Nichols (Eds) Strengthening post-conflict peacebuilding through natural resource management: Vol. 6: Governance and institutions. United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva.

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Rosen T. and P. Zahler. 2016. Snow leopards and transboundary conservation. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards. Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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Zahler P. 2016. Linear infrastructure and snow leopard conservation. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards. Elsevier Publishing, NY.

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McCarthy T., Mallon D., Sanderson E., Zahler P., and K. Fisher. 2016. What is a snow leopard? Biogeography and status. In: McCarthy T. and D. Mallon (Eds) Snow leopards. Elsevier Publishing, NY.

 

Kretser H.E., Wong R., Roberton S., Pershyn C., Huang J., Kang A., and P. Zahler. 2015. Building enforcement networks to identify wildlife crimes with mobile app technology. Biological Conservation, 189: 33-38.

 

Wingard J., Zahler P., Victurine R., Bayasgalan O. and B. Buuveibaatar. 2014. Guidelines for addressing the impact of linear infrastructure on migratory large mammals in Central Asia. Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Technical Report, Bonn, Germany.

 

Ostrowski S., Rahmani H., Ali J.M., Ali R., and P. Zahler. 2014. Musk deer survival in the eastern forests of Afghanistan. Oryx, 48(4): doi:10.1017/S0030605314000611

 

Zahler P. and T. Rosen. 2013. Endangered mammals. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Second Edition, Vol. 2. (S.A. Levin, ed.) Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

 

Buuveibaatar B., Young J.K., Berger J., Fine A., Lhagvasuren B., Zahler P., and T. Fuller. 2013. Factors affecting survival and cause-specific mortality of saiga calves in Mongolian Journal of Mammalogy, 94(1): 127-136.

 

Zahler P. and D. Lawson. 2012. Improving livelihoods and governance through resource management in Afghanistan. Pp. 36-38 In: Chettri N., Sherchan U., Chaudhary S and B. Shakya (Eds) Mountain biodiversity conservation and management: Selected examples of good practices and lessons learned from the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Working Paper 2/2012, Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

Khan M., Rosen T. and P. Zahler. 2012. Status and conservation of the Asiatic black bear in Diamer District, Pakistan. International Bear News, 21(1):13-14.

 

Kretser H., Johnson, M., Hickey, L.M., Zahler P, and E. Bennett. 2012. Supply and demand for wildlife trade products available to U.S. military personnel serving abroad. Biodiversity and Conservation. 21(4): 967-980.

 

Smallwood, P., Shank C., Dehgan A. and P. Zahler. 2011. Wildlife conservation…in Afghanistan? Bioscience, 61(7): 506-511.

 

Rosen, T., Zahler P., Ostrowski S., Watson J., Welsh R., Michel S., Mamadyorbekova S., Karimov H., Mulloyorov D., Mulloyorov K., Fayzov H. and A. Bekmurodi. 2011. On the trail of brown bears in Tajikistan. International Bear News, 20(4): 36-38.

 

Kanderian N., Lawson D., and P. Zahler. 2011. Current status of wildlife and conservation in Afghanistan. International Journal of Environmental Studies. 68(3): 281-298.

 

Zahler P. 2010. Conservation and governance: Lessons from the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. Pp. 72-80 in: State of the Wild III: A global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans 2010-2011. Island Press, Washington, DC.

 

Fraser J, Wilkie D., Wallace R., Coppolillo P., McNab R.B., Painter R.L.E., Zahler P. and L. Buechsel. 2010. The emergence of conservation NGOs as catalysts for local democracy. Pp 44 - 56.in: Manfredo M.J., Vaske J.J., Brown P., Decker D.J. and E.A. Duke (eds). Wildlife and society, the science of human dimensions. Island Press, Washington DC.

 

Zahler, P. 2010. Conservation and governance. Online article, Policy Innovations, Carnegie Council. http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000160.

 

Ostrowski S., Zahler P., Dehgan A., Stevens K., Karlstetter M., and P. Smallwood. 2009. The Asiatic black bear still survives in Nuristan, Afghanistan. International Bear News, 18(4): 14-15.

 

Berger, B., Berger K.M., Bergen S., Buuveibaatar. B., Fine A., Lkhagvasuren B., Young J.K. and P. Zahler. 2008. Migration bottlenecks, climate, and the conservation of Pleistocene relicts in Central Asia. The Open Conservation Biology Journal, 2: 9-10.

 

Townsend S. and P. Zahler. 2007. Marmot survey in the Eastern Steppe of Mongolia. Pp. 118-128. In: The marmots of Eurasia: Origin and current status. Institute of Zoology Uzbek Academy of Sciences, International Marmot Network. Tashkent.

 

Zahler P., S., Joly D., Osofsky S., Enkhtuvsin S. and L. Krueger. 2007. Improving poverty reduction and conservation outcomes in the grassland ecosystem of Mongolia. Pp. 141-152. In: Poverty, health and ecosystems: Experiences from Asia. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K. in collaboration with ADB, Manila, Philippines.

 

Dehgan A., Zahler P., Wingard J. and L. Yook. 2007. Conservation, wildlife, and security: Afghanistan case study. Pp. 58-68. In: Protected areas and human livelihoods. Eds. K.H. Redford and E. Fearn. WCS Working Paper 32, New York.

 

Hunter L., Jowkar H., Ziaie H., Schaller G., Balme G., Walzer C., Ostrowski S., Zahler P., Robert-Schaurre N. and K. Kashiri. 2007. Conserving the Asiatic cheetah in Iran: Launching the first radio-telemetry study. Cat News, 46: 8-11.

 

Townsend S. and P. Zahler. 2007. Mongolian marmot crisis: Status of the Siberian marmot in the Eastern Steppe of Mongolia. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 4(2): 37-46.

 

Smith A.T., Zahler P. and L.A. Hinds. 2007. Ineffective and unsustainable poisoning of native small mammals in temperate Asia: a classic case of the science-policy divide. Pp. 285-293.  In: Conservation biology in Asia: Current status and future perspectives. Society for Conservation Biology Asia Section and Resources Himalaya Foundation, Nepal.

 

Wingard J. and P. Zahler. 2006. Silent steppe: The wildlife trade crisis in Mongolia. The World Bank Biodiversity Publications, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

 

Treves A., Andriamampianina L., Didier K., Gibson J., Plumptre A., Wilkie D. and P. Zahler. 2006. A simple, cost-effective method for involving stakeholders in spatially explicit assessments of threats to biodiversity. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 11(1): 43-54.

 

Townsend S. and P. Zahler. 2006. Siberian marmot survey in the Eastern Steppe of Mongolia: Evidence of a severe decline. In: Symposium of the Fifth International Conference on Genus Marmota. Institute of Zoology, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences.

 

Zahler P. 2005. Conservation and conflict: The importance of continuing conservation work during political upheaval and armed conflict. Pp. 243-249. In: State of the Wild: A global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans. Island Press, Washington, DC.

 

Zahler P. and Lhagvasuren B. 2005. Conservation and management of the Gobi bear. Oryx, 39(3): 248-249.

 

Heffernan D.E., Zahler P., Merkel J., Heffernan C.A., and J. Chinzorig. 2005. An assessment of the protected areas of the Eastern Steppe of Mongolia. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 3(1):25-29.

 

Zahler P. and B. Lhagvasuren. 2005. No different in the north: the mammal trade in Mongolia. Pp. 11-12. In: Going, going, gone…The illegal trade in wildlife in East and Southeast Asia. The World Bank, Singapore.

 

Olson K., Odonkhuu D. and P. Zahler. 2004. Connectivity, corridors, and stepping stones: Conservation implications of roe deer distribution on the Eastern Steppe. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2(1): 23-27.

 

Zahler P. and M. Khan. 2004. Status and new records of Ladakh urial (Ovis orientalis vignei) in Northern Pakistan. Caprinae: Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group: 1-3.

 

Zahler P. 2004. Recent management and conservation initiatives for Mongolian gazelle, saiga antelope, and Gobi bear. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2(2): 47-49.

 

Olson K., Schaller G., Myagmasuren, Odonkhuu D. and P. Zahler. 2004. Status of ungulates in Nomrog Strictly Protected Area. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2(1): 51-53.

 

Zahler P., Lhagvasuren B., Reading R.P., Wingard J.R., Amgalanbaatar S., Gombobaatar S., Barton N. and Y. Onon. 2004. Illegal and unsustainable wildlife hunting and trade in Mongolia. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2(2): 23-31.

 

Zahler P., Dolgormaa L., Hinds L., and A.T. Smith. 2004. The management of Brandt’s vole in Mongolia: Toward an ecologically based means of control. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2(2): 51-55.

 

Zahler P., Olson K., Ganzorig K., Boldbaatar B., Schaller G.B., Grigg G., Pople T., Payne N., Draisma M., Hopwood P. and D. Odonkhuu. 2004. Management of Mongolian gazelles as a sustainable resource. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 1(2): 48-55.

 

Zahler P. 2003. Top-down meets bottom-up: Conservation in a post-conflict world. Conservation in Practice, 4(1): 23-29.

 

Zahler P. and M. Khan. 2003. Evidence for dietary specialization on pine needles by the woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus). Journal of Mammalogy, 84(2): 480-486.

 

UNEP. 2003. Afghanistan: Post-conflict environmental assessment. United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Doyle K.L., Zahler P., and C. Aucca Chutas. 2002.  Biodiversity and the case for preservation of the Sibinacocha watershed. Pp. 189-194. In: Proceedings of the Congress on Conservation of Biodiversity in the Andes and the Amazon Basin. INKA e.V. Munich, Germany.

 

Jenkins C.L. and P. Zahler. 2002. Using geographic information systems to identify hotspots of amphibian biodiversity in the Andes of southern Peru. Pp. 247-254. In: Proceedings of the Congress on Conservation of Biodiversity in the Andes and the Amazon Basin. INKA e.V. Munich, Germany.

 

Zahler P. 2002. Afghanistan: Post-conflict. Pp. 58-59. In: Mountain Watch: Environmental Change and Sustainable Development in Mountains. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK.

 

Zahler P. 2001. Endangered mammals. Pp. 441-454. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Vol. 2. (S.A. Levin, ed.) Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

 

Zahler P. 2001. The woolly flying squirrel and gliding: Does size matter? Acta Theriologica, 46(4): 429-435.

 

Zahler P. 2001. Group living and social evolution in viverrids: A comparison of the meerkat (Suricata suricatta) and the yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata). Pp. 32-44. In: Carnivore Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation. (T.K. Fuller and P.R. Seivert, eds.) Report Series 3, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 

Zahler P. and C. Dietemann. 1999. A note on food habits of the eagle owl (Bubo bubo turcomanus) in Northern Pakistan. Forktail, 15: 98-99.

 

Zahler P. and A. Karim. 1999.  New distribution, elevation, habitat, and diurnal refuge for the Kashmir flying squirrel (Eoglaucomys fimbriatus). Mammalia, 62(4): 588-591.

 

Zahler P., Karim A., and N.I. Dar. 1998. New record for black-headed jay Garrulus lanceolatus (Vigors) in Northern Pakistan. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 94(3): 570.

 

Zahler P., Dar N.I., and A. Karim. 1998. Possible breeding by rock thrush Monticola saxatilis in Northern Pakistan. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 95(1): 116-117.

 

 

Zahler P. and A. Karim. 1998. Origin of the floristic components of salajit. Hamdard Medicus: Pakistan Quarterly Journal of Science and Medicine, 41(2): 6-8.

 

Zahler P. and C.A. Woods. 1997. The status of the woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus) in Northern Pakistan. Pp. 485-514. In: Biodiversity of Pakistan. (S.A. Mufti, C.A. Woods and S.A. Hasan, eds.)  Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL.

 

Zahler P. 1996. Rediscovery of the woolly flying squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus). Journal of Mammalogy, 77(1): 54-57.

 

Zahler P. 1996. Small mammal occurrence and habitat use on the Cape Romanzof Long Range Radar Site. United States Fish and Wildlife Report, 1-12.

 

Zahler P. 1993. Manatees. Pp. 704-709. Seals and sea lions. Pp. 1035-1048. Whales. Pp. 1350-1367. In: Endangered Wildlife of the World. Marshall Cavendish, New York, NY.

 

Zahler P. 1988. Analysis of the occurrence and density of mammalian species of the Curlew Lake study site on the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. United States Fish and Wildlife Report, 1-12.

 

McCaffery B.J. and P. Zahler. 1987. Habitat use by breeding bristle-thighed curlews on the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. United States Fish and Wildlife Report, 1-21.

 

McCaffery B.J., Sordahl T.A., and P. Zahler. 1984. Behavioral ecology of the mountain plover in Northeastern Colorado. Wader Study Group Bulletin, 40: 18-21.