Metapopulation modelling of long-term urban habitat-loss scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Increasing human populations in urban areas pose a threat to species' persistence through habitat loss and fragmentation. It is therefore essential that we develop methods to investigate critical habitat loss thresholds and least detrimental landscape configurations.

Objectives

We develop a framework to assess how the pattern of habitat loss impacts the ecological and social characteristics of a landscape and how this varies depending on the species and criteria by which it is judged.

Methods

We use a scenario-based approach to test six propositions in which habitat is lost preferentially based on patch characteristics. We use eight bird and two amphibian species as indicator species. To compare scenarios, we present a method combining the output from a metapo

SUBMITTER: Graham LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010366 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature