Migration Bottlenecks, Climate, and the Conservation of Pleistocene Relicts in Central Asia

L. Badamjav
B. Bayarbaatar
J. Young
J. Berger
K. Murray
S. Bergen
A. Fine
P. Zahler
Migration Bottlenecks, Climate, and the Conservation of Pleistocene Relicts in Central Asia
Using GPS technology on the formerly widespread but now endangered saiga in Mongolia, we identified a 5-km wide critical corridor, whose protection is critical for maintaining migration and meta-population structure.

Saiga have faced the long term threat of climate change and now the more immediate danger of human persecution and habitat degradation. In less than two decades, numbers have dropped 95% from 1,000,000 to 50,000.