Networks are ubiquitous in natural, technological and social systems. They are of increasing
relevance for improved understanding and control of infectious diseases of plants, animals …

A large fraction of the current environmental crisis derives from the large rates of human-
driven biodiversity loss. Biodiversity conservation questions human practices towards …

Connectivity requirements are a common component of forest planning models, with
important examples arising in wildlife habitat protection. In harvest scheduling models, one …

A classic problem in planning is districting, which aims to partition a given area into a
specified number of subareas according to required criteria. Size, compactness, and …

Protected areas must be close, or connected, enough to allow for the preservation of large‐
scale ecological and evolutionary processes, such as gene flow, migration, and range shifts …

Several major environmental issues like biodiversity loss and climate change currently
concern the international community. These topics that are related to the development of …

The interdigitation of the Nearartic and Neotropical biogeographic zones in the
Transvolcanic Belt (TVB) of central Mexico provides the region with high faunal richness and …

Wildlife corridors connect areas of biological significance to mitigate the negative ecological
impacts of habitat fragmentation. In this article we formalize the optimal corridor design as a …

Context Conservation planning is increasingly using “coarse filters” based on the idea of
conserving “nature's stage”. One such approach is based on ecosystems and the concept of …

Although larval dispersal is crucial for the persistence of most marine populations, dispersal
connectivity between sites is rarely considered in designing marine protected area networks …