To measure population densities, Wibisono led and supervised field surveys in three tiger conservation landscapes using camera traps. He also collated camera trap data from national and international partner organizations resulting in 29 datasets from 16 study sites collected between 1999 and 2017. Analyzing these datasets in a single multi-session model allowed him to estimate parameters across sites and test covariates for movement, detection and density. Wibisono notes that future island-wide tiger population assessments should use similar multi-session models with environmental covariates to accurately estimate population densities.

Additional collaborative tiger surveys in the Sumatran rainforest, led by Wibisono from 2007 to 2009, searched for the presence of tiger activity, prey activity, and human disturbances such as poaching and illegal logging. Wibisono and his conservation fellows collected data along transects in 389 grid cells, each 17 square kilometers in size, to estimate occupancy of tigers and prey in remaining tiger habitats. Unlike population density that refers to the number of tigers across a particular landscape, occupancy refers to the distribution of those tigers within the landscape. In 2011, his team and conservation fellows published the first ever Sumatran tiger occupancy study. Revisiting the prey and disturbance data from his earlier research, he reanalyzed the datasets to explore the effects of environmental and anthropogenic factors and noted that past and future conservation interventions must be evaluated based on their impacts on tiger occupancy.

Finally, Wibisono modelled landscape connectivity in human-dominated landscapes in West Sumatra Province. Applying maximum entropy modeling, he identified nine core tiger habitats and then developed a resistance layer to indicate landscape obstacles that tigers may encounter such as roads, elevation changes and various types of ground cover. Circuit theory and least-cost path analysis enabled him to predict structural connectivity between core Sumatran tiger habitats. It is his hope that Indonesia can implement a training program on similar habitat connectivity assessments for members of relevant government bodies so that connectivity analyses can be done for the remaining Sumatran tiger landscapes and appropriate preservation measures enacted.

"I was thrilled to have one of the world's top tiger conservation biologists join our Rare and Elusive Species lab at UD. Beebach's — now Dr. Wibisono’s — research is immediately actionable, providing the Indonesian government and NGOs with priority conservation targets and a better understanding of current Sumatran tiger populations,” said Kyle McCarthy, associate professor of wildlife ecology and Wibisono’s dissertation adviser.