Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity

J Whittington, M Hebblewhite, RW Baron, AT Ford… - Movement ecology, 2022 - Springer
Background Global increases in human activity threaten connectivity of animal habitat and
populations. Protection and restoration of wildlife habitat and movement corridors require …

A three-step approach for assessing landscape connectivity via simulated dispersal: African wild dog case study

DD Hofmann, G Cozzi, JW McNutt, A Ozgul… - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context Dispersal of individuals contributes to long-term population persistence, yet requires
a sufficient degree of landscape connectivity. To date, connectivity has mainly been …

Comparison of methods for estimating omnidirectional landscape connectivity

P Phillips, MM Clark, S Baral, EL Koen, J Bowman - Landscape Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Context Maintaining and improving ecological connectivity is an important component of
wildlife conservation. Omnidirectional circuit theory algorithms model the flow of electric …

A simulation model of functional habitat connectivity demonstrates the importance of species establishment in older forests

M Jõks, A Helm, L Kasari-Toussaint, E Kook, R Lutter… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fragmented natural habitats, such as old-growth forests, have been often considered island-
like systems. However, whereas the isolation of real islands is mostly a function of their …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating spatio-temporal connectivity for prioritized conservation of individual habitat patches in a dynamic landscape

H Zhao, D Liu, F Li, X Liu, J Niu, J He, Y Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Habitat fragmentation has largely reduced biodiversity in the urban fringe. The prioritization
of individual habitat patches can provide spatially explicit guidance for ecological …

Methods for implementing integrated step-selection functions with incomplete data

DD Hofmann, G Cozzi, J Fieberg - Movement Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Integrated step-selection analyses (iSSAs) are versatile and powerful frameworks for
studying habitat and movement preferences of tracked animals. iSSAs utilize integrated step …

Bound within boundaries: Do protected areas cover movement corridors of their most mobile, protected species?

DD Hofmann, DM Behr, JW McNutt… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Conserving and managing large portions of land to connect wildlife reserves is an
increasingly used strategy to maintain and restore connectivity among wildlife populations …

Dispersal and connectivity in increasingly extreme climatic conditions

DD Hofmann, DM Behr, JW McNutt… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While climate change has been shown to impact several life‐history traits of wild‐living
animal populations, little is known about its effects on dispersal and connectivity. Here, we …

Incorporating habitat suitability, landscape distance, and resistant kernels to estimate conservation units for an imperiled terrestrial snake

JM Bauder, HC Chandler, ML Elmore, CL Jenkins - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Context Wildlife distributions are often subdivided into discrete conservation units to aid in
implementing management and conservation objectives. Habitat suitability models …

Towns and trails drive carnivore connectivity using a step selection approach

J Whittington, R Baron, M Hebblewhite, AT Ford… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Global increases in human activity threaten connectivity of animal populations. Protection
and restoration of animal movement corridors requires robust models to forecast the effects …