Understanding how aspects of their environment affect tiger distribution and fitness can help managers make better decisions about managing for tiger conservation. Predictive maps of tiger distribution can provide an explicit basis for planning and carrying out research, training, monitoring, management, and protection activities aimed at increasing the likelihood of persistence of a robust tiger population in western Thailand and neighboring Burma.

In this study, I used linear and logistic regression techniques to model relationships between tiger prey species and their environment and between tigers and their environment across a large conservation landscape in western Thailand.