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

Glacial cycles have played a dominant role in shaping the genetic structure and distribution
of biota in northwestern North America. The two major ice age refugia of Beringia and the …

Dispersal is fundamental in determining biodiversity responses to rapid climate change, but
recently acquired ecological and evolutionary knowledge is seldom accounted for in either …

Understanding how spatial genetic patterns respond to landscape change is crucial for
advancing the emerging field of landscape genetics. We quantified the number of …

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

Landscape pattern indicators or 'metrics' provide simple measures of landscape structure
that can be easily calculated with readily available data and software. Unfortunately, the …

The ability to identify regions of high functional connectivity for multiple wildlife species is of
conservation interest with respect to habitat management and corridor planning. We present …

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 …

Corridors are popular conservation tools because they are thought to allow animals to safely
move between habitat fragments, thereby maintaining landscape connectivity. Nonetheless …

Populations in fragmented landscapes experience reduced gene flow, lose genetic diversity
over time and ultimately face greater extinction risk. Improving connectivity in fragmented …