Bleyhl, BenjaminGhoddousi, ArashAskerov, ElshadBocedi, GretaBreitenmoser, UrsManvelyan, KarenPalmer, Stephen C FSoofi, MahmoodWeinberg, PaulZazanashvili, NugzarShmunk, ValeriiZurell, DamarisKuemmerle, Tobias2021-09-212021-09-212021-07-01Bleyhl, B, Ghoddousi, A, Askerov, E, Bocedi, G, Breitenmoser, U, Manvelyan, K, Palmer, S C F, Soofi, M, Weinberg, P, Zazanashvili, N, Shmunk, V, Zurell, D & Kuemmerle, T 2021, 'Reducing persecution is more effective for restoring large carnivores than restoring their prey', Ecological Applications, vol. 31, no. 5, e2338. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.23381051-0761https://hdl.handle.net/2164/17115We gratefully acknowledge funding by the Federal State of Berlin, Germany (Elsa Neumann Scholarship to BB), and the German Research Foundation (GH 149/1-1 and ZU 361/1-1). We further thank all participants of the workshop on the revi- sion of the Strategy for Leopard Conservation in the Caucasus in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2017. We are grateful to J. Buchner, A. Heidelberg, V.C. Radeloff, and H. Yin for fruitful discussions, and F. Poetzschner for help with preparing data. Additionally, we thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.143276701engCaucasusdispersalPanthera pardusPersian leopardpoachingpopulation viabilityprioritizationSpatially explicit population model (SEPM)RangeShifterQH301 BiologySupplementary DataQH301Journal article10.1002/eap.2338315