Conservation practitioners have long recognized ecological connectivity as a global priority
for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem function. In the early years of conservation …

Remote sensing allows for cost-and time-efficient monitoring of landscapes vital to the
conservation of natural resources, ecosystems, and biodiversity. This review synthesizes …

Global policies call for connecting protected areas (PAs) to conserve the flow of animals and
genes across changing landscapes, yet whether global PA networks currently support …

Landscape connectivity is crucial for many ecological processes, including dispersal, gene
flow, demographic rescue, and movement in response to climate change. As a result …

Dispersal is difficult to quantify and often treated as purely stochastic and extrinsically
controlled. Consequently, there remains uncertainty about how individual traits mediate …

Habitat loss and deterioration represent the main threats to wildlife species, and are closely
linked to the expansion of roads and human settlements. Unfortunately, large-scale effects of …

Context Connectivity has become a top conservation priority in response to landscape
fragmentation. Many methods have been developed to identify areas of the landscape with …

Increasingly, natural resources agencies and organizations are using measures of
ecological integrity to monitor and evaluate the status and condition of their landscapes, and …

Empirical studies and habitat suitability modeling project significant shifts in species
distributions in response to climate change. Because habitat fragmentation can impede …

Conservation scientists emphasize the importance of maintaining a connected network of
protected areas to prevent ecosystems and populations from becoming isolated, reduce the …