Spatiotemporal behavior of predators and prey in an arid environment of Central Asia.

Despite the MSOM showing weakly significant pairwise co-occurrence ( α = 2.12 ± 1.11 SE , z = 1.90, P = 0.06; Table 3 ) between snow leopard and red fox, the results obtained from the predicted conditional occupancy of each species, based on the presence/absence of the interacting species, showed that the presence/absence of the red fox (i.e., first and second scenarios) did not affect the probability of occupancy of the snow leopard (red fox present: β = 0.47 ± 0.34 SE , CI95% = 1.74e−03 – 0.99; red fox absent: β = 0.46 ± 0.34 SE , CI95% = 2.78e−05 – 0.99) ( Supplementary Material 3 ).

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