Using landscape connectivity to predict human-wildlife conflict

EK Buchholtz, A Stronza, A Songhurst… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Human-wildlife conflict has serious conservation consequences, both for populations of
wildlife and for the people who live alongside them. Connectivity analyses can incorporate …

Applying circuit theory for corridor expansion and management at regional scales: tiling, pinch points, and omnidirectional connectivity

D Pelletier, M Clark, MG Anderson, B Rayfield… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Connectivity models are useful tools that improve the ability of researchers and managers to
plan land use for conservation and preservation. Most connectivity models function in a point …

Wild, connected, and diverse: building a more resilient system of protected areas

RT Belote, MS Dietz, CN Jenkins… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Current systems of conservation reserves may be insufficient to sustain biodiversity in the
face of climate change and habitat losses. Consequently, calls have been made to protect …

Estimating climate resilience for conservation across geophysical settings

MG Anderson, M Clark, AO Sheldon - Conservation Biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conservationists need methods to conserve biological diversity while allowing species and
communities to rearrange in response to a changing climate. We developed and tested such …

The role of regional ecological assessment in quantifying ecosystem services for forest management

LY Pomara, DC Lee - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Regional ecological assessments evaluate sustainability as an interaction among
ecosystem services and stressors across changing landscapes. Using ecological …

Resistance-surface-based wildlife conservation connectivity modeling: Summary of efforts in the United States and guide for practitioners

AA Wade, KS McKelvey… - Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS …, 2015 - research.fs.usda.gov
Resistance-surface-based connectivity modeling has become a widespread tool for
conservation planning. The current ease with which connectivity models can be created …

Comparison of methods for estimating omnidirectional landscape connectivity

P Phillips, MM Clark, S Baral, EL Koen, J Bowman - Landscape Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Context Maintaining and improving ecological connectivity is an important component of
wildlife conservation. Omnidirectional circuit theory algorithms model the flow of electric …

Quantifying the contribution of conservation easements to large-landscape conservation

RA Graves, MA Williamson, RT Belote, JS Brandt - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Private lands are critical for conservation of ecosystem diversity and sustaining large-scale
ecological processes. Increasingly, conservation easements (CE) are used as a tool to …

Long‐term monitoring of tropical alpine habitat change, Andean anurans, and chytrid fungus in the Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru: Results from a decade of study

TA Seimon, A Seimon, K Yager, K Reider… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cordillera Vilcanota in southern Peru is the second largest glacierized range in
the tropics and home to one of the largest high‐alpine lakes, Sibinacocha (4,860 m). Here …