The study of landscape connectivity in conservation has increased considerably since the
early part of the 21st century. While the implications of landscape connectivity are self …

Recent progress in positioning technology facilitates the collection of massive amounts of
sequential spatial data on animals. This has led to new opportunities and challenges when …

Resistance surfaces are often used to fill gaps in our knowledge surrounding animal
movement and are frequently the basis for modeling connectivity associated with …

The need to conserve and create linkages among fragmented habitats has given rise to a
range of techniques for maximizing connectivity. Methods to identify optimal habitat linkages …

Animals regularly return to locations such as foraging patches, nests, dens, watering holes,
or movement corridors, and these revisited locations are often sites of ecological …

Concern about the effects of habitat fragmentation has led to increasing interest in dispersal
and connectivity modelling. Most modern techniques for connectivity modelling have …

Rapid urbanization has induced numerous ecological and environmental issues seriously
threatening the ecological security. The ecological security pattern (ESP), an effective way …

Centrality metrics evaluate paths between all possible pairwise combinations of sites on a
landscape to rank the contribution of each site to facilitating ecological flows across the …

The concept of nearness and that nearer things are more connected is useful in quantifying
a variety of geographical patterns and processes, including ecological connectivity between …

Aim Millennia of human activity have drastically shaped the Earth's surface confining wildlife
in ever more rare and sparse habitat fragments. Within the strategic Plan for Biodiversity …