Authors
Santiago Saura, Örjan Bodin, Marie‐Josée Fortin
Publication date
2014/2
Journal
Journal of Applied Ecology
Volume
51
Issue
1
Pages
171-182
Description
- Climate and land‐use changes will require species to move large distances following shifts in their suitable habitats, which will frequently involve traversing intensively human‐modified landscapes. Practitioners will therefore need to evaluate and act to enhance the degree to which habitat patches scattered throughout the landscape may function as stepping stones facilitating dispersal among otherwise isolated habitat areas.
- We formulate a new generalized network model of habitat connectivity that accounts for the number of dispersing individuals and for long‐distance dispersal processes across generations. By doing so, we bridge the gap between complex dynamic population models, which are generally too data demanding and hence difficult to apply in practical wide‐scale decision‐making, and simpler static connectivity models that only consider the amount of habitat that can be reached by a single …
Scholar articles
S Saura, Ö Bodin, MJ Fortin - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2014