A distribution-oriented approach to support landscape connectivity for ecologically distinct bird species.

ABSTRACT: Managing landscape connectivity is a widely recognized overarching strategy for conserving biodiversity in human-impacted landscapes. However, planning the conservation and management of landscape connectivity of multiple and ecologically distinct species is still challenging. Here we provide a spatially-explicit framework which identifies and prioritizes connectivity conservation and restoration actions for species with distinct habitat affinities. Specifically, our study system comprised three groups of common bird species, forest-specialists, farmland-specialists, and generalists, populating a highly heterogeneous agricultural countryside in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula. We first performed a comprehensive analysis of the environmental variables underlying the distributional patter

SUBMITTER: Herrera JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5895004 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature