Modeling habitat connectivity in support of multiobjective species movement: An application to amphibian habitat systems.

ABSTRACT: Reasoning about the factors underlying habitat connectivity and the inter-habitat movement of species is essential to many areas of biological inquiry. In order to better describe and understand the ways in which the landscape may support species movement, an increasing amount of research has focused on identification of paths or corridors that may be important in providing connectivity among habitat. The least-cost path problem has proven to be an instrumental analytical tool in this sense. A complicating aspect of such path identification methods is how to best reconcile and integrate the array of criteria or objectives that species may consider in traversal of a landscape. In cases where habitat connectivity is thought to be influenced or guided by multiple objectives, numerous solution

SUBMITTER: Matisziw TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7793291 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature