Divergent perspectives on landscape connectivity reveal consistent effects from genes to communities

RJ Fletcher, NS Burrell, BE Reichert, D Vasudev… - Current Landscape …, 2016 - Springer
Landscape connectivity is increasingly emphasized due to its relevance for interpreting
effects of environmental change. Yet substantial uncertainty remains regarding the …

Understanding the importance of dynamic landscape connectivity

KA Zeller, R Lewison, RJ Fletcher Jr, MG Tulbure… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Landscape connectivity is increasingly promoted as a conservation tool to combat the
negative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change. Given its importance as a …

Towards a unified framework for connectivity that disentangles movement and mortality in space and time

RJ Fletcher Jr, JA Sefair, C Wang, CL Poli… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting connectivity, or how landscapes alter movement, is essential for understanding
the scope for species persistence with environmental change. Although it is well known that …

Using landscape connectivity tools to identify conservation priorities in forested areas and potential restoration priorities in rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna …

W Liu, AC Hughes, Y Bai, Z Li, C Mei, Y Ma - Landscape ecology, 2020 - Springer
Context Maintaining connectivity is critical for fragmented habitat networks to retain native
species. The tropical forest in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, is a biodiversity hotspot for …

A framework for linking dispersal biology to connectivity across landscapes

RJ Fletcher Jr, ME Iezzi, R Guralnick, AJ Marx… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context Dispersal typically consists of three components—departure, transience and
settlement—each of which can be influenced by the landscape. A fundamental aspect of …

Hierarchical species distribution models in support of vegetation conservation at the landscape scale

RG Mateo, A Gastón… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Species distribution models (SDM s) based on habitat suitability and niche
quantification are powerful tools in vegetation science. Recent findings suggest that they …

Extending isolation by resistance to predict genetic connectivity

RJ Fletcher Jr, JA Sefair, N Kortessis… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic connectivity lies at the heart of evolutionary theory, and landscape genetics has
rapidly advanced to understand how gene flow can be impacted by the environment …

Consistent scaling of population structure across landscapes despite intraspecific variation in movement and connectivity

BE Reichert, RJ Fletcher Jr, CE Cattau… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the spatial scale of population structure is fundamental to long‐standing
tenets of population biology, landscape ecology and conservation. Nonetheless, identifying …

samc: an R package for connectivity modeling with spatial absorbing Markov chains

AJ Marx, C Wang, JA Sefair, MA Acevedo… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying landscape connectivity is fundamental to better understand and predict how
populations respond to environmental change. Currently, popular methods to quantify …

Evaluating capability of Green Stormwater Infrastructure on large properties toward adaptive flood mitigation: The HLCA+ C methodology

S Muangsri, W McWilliam, G Lawson, T Davies - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Current flood protection capacities will become inadequate to protect many low-lying coastal
cities from climate change-induced flooding in the future. Under climate change uncertainty …