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THE FUNCTION OF PLANTATION FORESTRY IN LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY

Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 2016
Plantation forestry has been widely used for industrial purposes, creating vast extensions of culture forests. Although these plantations have a primary economic goal, they may indirectly serve other functions, such as landscape connectivity. Eucalypts are among the main plantation species used worldwide.
Cabarga Varona, Alejandro, Arroyo Hailvoto, Nina Larissa, Nogués Linares, Soledad   +2 more
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Assessing landscape functional connectivity in a forest carnivore using path selection functions [PDF]

, 2016
Context Understanding connectivity patterns in relation to habitat fragmentation is essential to landscape management. However, connectivity is often judged from expert opinion or species occurrence patterns, with very few studies considering the actual ...
Beja, Pedro, Caravalho, Filipe, Carvalho, Rafael, Mira, António   +3 more
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Hydrological Connectivity - a study into representative metrics for a humid temperate catchment in northern England. [PDF]

, 2011
Hydrological connectivity has been identified as a concept which can help hydrology move towards a hydrological approach focussing on homogeneity rather than difference.
WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER,JOHN,SELLWOOD
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Wildlife crossing database platform: A transdisciplinary approach to developing a tool for landscape connectivity planning and public engagement

Wildlife Society Bulletin
Implementing wildlife crossings and restoring landscape connectivity are ecological, social, and economic imperatives. However, in North America, connectivity planning faces challenges associated with governance being fragmented into local jurisdictions ...
Robert Newell, Nina‐Marie Lister, Ann Dale, Sabrina Careri   +3 more
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GECOT: Graph‐based ecological connectivity optimization tool

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Habitat fragmentation is a critical threat to biodiversity, as it creates isolated patches of habitat and hinders species movement and survival. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has advanced to include landscape connectivity, often using graph ...
François Hamonic, Yann Vaxès, Basile Couëtoux, Cécile H. Albert   +3 more
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Landscape dynamics and their effect on the functional connectivity of a Mediterranean landscape in Chile

Ecological Indicators, 2015
Abstract Land use and cover changes have been identified as a major factor contributing to shape landscape structure and biodiversity patterns, particulary in areas with a long history of human occupation and habitat fragmentation, such as the Mediterranean landscapes.
Angela Hernández, Marcelo Miranda, Eduardo C. Arellano, Santiago Saura, Carlos Ovalle   +4 more
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Forest Landscape in Europe: Pattern, Fragmentation and Connectivity [PDF]

, 2013
The JRC demonstrated the feasibility to assess and report in a harmonized manner, forest landscape pattern and fragmentation in Europe, on the basis of an easily reproducible set of indices.
Estreguil, C., de Rigo, D., G. Caudullo, DE RIGO, DANIELE, Caudullo, G., San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., C. Estreguil, J. San Miguel Ayanz   +7 more
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Functional connectivity patterns of the Giant Toad Rhinella horribilis in anthropogenically modified landscapes.

PLoS ONE
Anthropized environments often fragment native habitats and alter the movement of individuals across the modified landscape mosaic, which is significantly challenging for wild species.
Gerardo J Soria-Ortiz, Leticia M Ochoa-Ochoa, Juan P Jaramillo-Correa, Íñigo Martínez-Solano, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez   +4 more
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Land use changes, landscape ecology and their socioeconomic driving forces in the Spanish Mediterranean coast (the Maresme County, 1850-2005) [PDF]

We use a set of landscape metrics to study the long-term environmental transformation of a typical coastal Mediterranean area from 1850 to 2005. Our figures show a dramatic environmental deterioration between 1950 and 2005.
Lluis Parcerisas, Francesc Coll, Joan Marull, Enric Tello, Joan Pino, Corina Basnou   +5 more
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Landscape Pattern and Plant Diversity in an Arid Inland River Basin: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach Based on Multi-Source Data

Biology
Biodiversity in arid river basins is highly climate-sensitive, yet the multi-pathway relations among the environment, landscape structure, connectivity, and plant diversity remain unclear.
Hui Shi, Tiange Shi
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