Conservation practitioners have long recognized ecological connectivity as a global priority
for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem function. In the early years of conservation …

Networks are finite metric spaces, with distances defined by the shortest paths between
nodes. However, this is not the only form of network geometry: two others are the geometry …

Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors Page 1
Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors Best Practice …

The rapid process of urbanization, accompanied by the sharp increase of urban population
and expansion of artificial surface, has resulted in the loss of natural ecosystems and the …

Implementing ecological conservation and restoration of territorial spaces is an effective way
of building an ecological civilization while maintaining national ecological security in the …

Habitat fragmentation, a contributor to biodiversity degradation in urbanized regions, will
result from rapid urbanization. Due to the low quality of habitats and the complexity of land …

Global policies call for connecting protected areas (PAs) to conserve the flow of animals and
genes across changing landscapes, yet whether global PA networks currently support …

Local adaptations can determine the potential of populations to respond to environmental
changes, yet adaptive genetic variation is commonly ignored in models forecasting species …

River networks are hierarchical dendritic habitats embedded within the terrestrial landscape,
with varying connectivity between sites depending on their positions along the network. This …

Genetic data often exhibit patterns broadly consistent with'isolation by distance'—a
phenomenon where genetic similarity decays with geographic distance. In a heterogeneous …