Applying circuit theory and landscape linkage maps to reintroduction planning for California Condors.

ABSTRACT: Conservation practitioners are increasingly looking to species translocations as a tool to recover imperiled taxa. Quantitative predictions of where animals are likely to move when released into new areas would allow managers to better address the social, institutional, and ecological dimensions of conservation translocations. Using >5 million California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) occurrence locations from 75 individuals, we developed and tested circuit-based models to predict condor movement away from release sites. We found that circuit-based models of electrical current were well calibrated to the distribution of condor movement data in southern and central California (continuous Boyce Index = 0.86 and 0.98, respectively). Model calibration was improved in southern California when

SUBMITTER: D'Elia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6938332 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature