Dark roads aid movement but increase mortality of a generalist herbivore in the American Southwest

KM Frank, MA Ditmer, DC Stoner, WS Currie… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Road networks pose many well‐documented threats to wildlife, from fragmenting habitats
and restricting movement to causing mortality through vehicle collisions. For large, wide …

Spatial and temporal factors influencing wildlife use of overpass crossing structures and landscape siphons along a major canal

KM Hamilton, T Bommarito, JS Lewis - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic linear infrastructures can reduce landscape connectivity for wildlife, and
crossing structures are a mitigation strategy to facilitate animal movement across potential …

Functional connectivity in a continuously distributed, migratory species as revealed by landscape genomics

MEF LaCava, RB Gagne, KD Gustafson… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining functional connectivity is critical for the long‐term conservation of wildlife
populations. Landscape genomics provides an opportunity to assess long‐term functional …

Informing wildlife corridor creation through population genetics of an arboreal marsupial in a fragmented landscape

A Gracanin, ML Knipler, KM Mikac - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Habitat loss and fragmentation contribute significantly to the decline of arboreal mammal
populations. As populations become fragmented and isolated, a reduction in gene flow can …

Past and recent effects of livestock activity on the genetic diversity and population structure of native guanaco populations of arid Patagonia

A Mesas, R Baldi, BA González, V Burgi, A Chávez… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Determining the impacts of human activities on natural populations is
important for biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we study the past and more recent …

The road to success and the fences to be crossed: considering multiple infrastructure in landscape connectivity modelling

I Botting, F Ascensão, LM Navarro, M Paniw… - Wildlife …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Linear infrastructure represent a barrier to movement for many species, reducing the
connectivity of the landscapes in which they reside. Of all linear infrastructure, roads and …

Genome‐wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from fecal samples reveal anthropogenic impacts on connectivity: Case of a small carnivore in the …

A Tyagi, A Khan, P Thatte… - Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining gene flow among fragmented habitat patches is critical for the long‐term
persistence of wild species. Landscape genetics tools are often used to understand the …

Conservation Genomics of the Threatened Western Spadefoot, Spea hammondii, in Urbanized Southern California

KM Neal, RN Fisher, MJ Mitrovich… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Populations of the western spadefoot (Spea hammondii) in southern California occur in one
of the most urbanized and fragmented landscapes on the planet and have lost up to 80% of …

Variation in functional connectivity between metapopulations in urbanized and forested areas in an endangered salamander

JY Jeon, D Jeong, A Borzée, K Heo, HC Park, H Lee… - Urban …, 2024 - Springer
In the face of rapid urbanization, species confront various challenges, and the
consequences of limited gene flow become evident. One such illustration is the Endangered …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal Design of Ecological Landscape Spatial Structure Based on Edge Computing of Internet of Things

R An - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022 - hindawi.com
Ecological landscape space refers to a whole composed of many different ecosystems in a
larger area. The spatial structure of the ecological landscape is the spatial arrangement and …