Title
Editorial, Special Edition on Amur tigers: The Amur tiger in Northeast Asia, Conservation and ecology of an endangered subspecies
Author(s)
Miquelle, D.G.
Published
2015
Publisher
Integrative Zoology
Abstract
When I first traveled to Russia to begin a radiotelemetry project on Amur tigers, I was operating on the false assumption that we would be “the first” to study and begin to understand the ecology of this northernmost subspecies of tigers. My ignorance was, as it turned out, primarily a language barrier, as nearly all work that had been conducted on this subspecies existed in either Russian or Chinese languages. In 1998 Evgeny Matyushkin, a biogeographer from Moscow State University, revealed my folly when he published a landmark bibliography in English and Russia reviewing 243 Russian language scientific publications on Amur tigers from 1925 to 1997 (Matyushkin 1998). While not so prolific, records on tiger occurrences in China have been kept for over 2000 years (Kang et al. 2010). Hence, far from being the first, it turned out that our project found itself standing on the shoulders of giants who had paved the way in how to do ecological research on this elusive big cat.
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