“…Yet landscape quality can significantly influence regional population persistence and even outweigh the effects of other habitat variables (Heinrichs, Bender, Gummer, & Schumaker, 2010;Klok & De Roos, 1998;Wiegand, Revilla, & Moloney, 2005). Regional landscape quality can influence the functional capacity of the landscape to support individuals, and those with higher overall capacity may support larger populations that are less prone to stochastic extinction (Gaggiotti & Hanski, 2004).…”