Integrating a generic focal species, metapopulation capacity, and connectivity to identify opportunities to link fragmented habitat

Foster, Else; Love, Jamie; Rader, Romina; Reid, Nick; Drielsma, Michael

doi:10.1007/s10980-017-0547-2

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“…2). Ecological restoration will often be needed to ensure that these already impacted landscapes increase local biodiversity (Benayas et al 2009) and effectively connect populations (see Principle 4; M' Gonigle et al 2015;Foster et al 2017). Canada Target 1 has the potential to dramatically improve conservation for species at risk through well-situated protected areas (Venter et al 2014) that include critical habitat and restoration of degraded lands.…”

Section: Key Principles Of Biodiversity Conservationmentioning

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Informing Canada’s commitment to biodiversity conservation: A science-based framework to help guide protected areas designation through Target 1 and beyond

Coristine

Jacob²,

Schuster

et al. 2018

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Biodiversity is intrinsically linked to the health of our planet-and its people. Yet, increasingly, human activities are causing the extinction of species, degrading ecosystems, and reducing nature's resilience to climate change and other threats. As a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada has a legal responsibility to protect 17% of land and freshwater by 2020. Currently, Canada has protected ∼10% of its terrestrial lands, requiring a marked increase in the pace and focus of protection over the next three years.Given the distribution, extent, and geography of Canada's current protected areas, systematic conservation planning would provide decision-makers with a ranking of the potential for new protected area sites to stem biodiversity loss and preserve functioning ecosystems. Here, we identify five key principles for identifying lands that are likely to make the greatest contribution to reversing biodiversity declines and ensuring biodiversity persistence into the future. We identify current gaps and integrate principles of protecting (i) species at risk, (ii) representative ecosystems, (iii) intact OPEN ACCESS

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Section: Key Principles Of Biodiversity Conservationmentioning

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Informing Canada’s commitment to biodiversity conservation: A science-based framework to help guide protected areas designation through Target 1 and beyond

Coristine

Jacob²,

Schuster

et al. 2018

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“…A protective strategy in environments that are facing fragmentation is creating a network of habitats through connecting corridors (Di Minin et al, 2013;Foster, Love, Rader, Reid, & Drielsma, 2017;Moqanaki & Cushman, 2017). Corridor design improves the connectivity between isolated patches and, therefore, increases the landscape's capacity to sustain individuals, populations and meta-populations (Haddad et al, 2015;Khosravi, Hemami, & Cushman, 2018).…”

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Landscape connectivity for mammalian megafauna along the Iran-Turkmenistan-Afghanistan borderland

Hosseini

Farashi

Khani

et al. 2019

Journal for Nature Conservation

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Habitat fragmentation threatens biodiversity, causes population isolation and reduces the availability of resources. When species ranges span geopolitical borders, management of transboundary populations and securing their connectivity can be compromised by different juridical efforts and priorities. Using a combination of species distribution modelling and circuit theory, we modelled suitable habitats for four conservation-dependent mammalian megafauna in northeastern Iran, bordering Turkmenistan and Afghanistan which is part of the larger Kopet Dag Ecoregion in central Asia. Our multispecies approach was aimed to identify key habitats and potential national and international corridors for Persian leopard (Panthera pardus), bezoar goat (Capra aegagrus), urial sheep (Ovis orientalis) and goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa). Between 18 to 34% of the region was identified as suitable habitat for each species with a moderate variability in coverage by conservation network (14 to 43%). Importantly, we identified three key landscapes which can enhance the connectivity between main populations of the species in northeastern Iran as well as neighboring countries. Most of the suitable landscapes along the Iran-Turkmenistan borderlands are protected on the Iranian side, providing a source for species movement across the border. In contrast, the main suitable landscapes for megafauna in northeastern Iran are located far from the Afghan border. Our multispecies approach provided an empirical framework for spatial conservation planning for the mammalian megafauna across the Kopet Dag Ecoregion and can direct future survey efforts to identify critical wildlife areas in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, two countries with scarce data on biodiversity.

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“…This approach requires developing a set of profiles of characteristics (e.g., habitat preference, perceptual range, and vagility) for each species group of interest. Generic species have been used for connectivity conservation planning in several other instances (Foster, Love, Rader, Reid, & Drielsma, 2017;Lechner, Sprod, Carter, & Lefroy, 2017;Watts et al, 2010). Because generic species provide a means of incorporating attributes of multiple species' life histories without requiring species-specific movement data, they represent an intermediate approach between coarse-filter structural connectivity analyses and fine-filter functional connectivity analyses that is both biologically defensible and logistically feasible (Lechner et al, 2017).…”

Section: Connectivity and National Forestsmentioning

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Incorporating wildlife connectivity into forest plan revision under the United States Forest Service's 2012 planning rule

Williamson

Creech

Carnwath³

et al. 2019

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The United States Forest Service promulgated new planning regulations under the National Forest Management Act in 2012 (i.e., the Planning Rule). These new regulations include the first requirements in U.S. public land management history for National Forests to evaluate, protect, and/or restore ecological connectivity as they revise their land management plans. Data and resource limitations make single-species, functional connectivity analyses for the myriad species that occur within the 78 million ha the Forest Service manages implausible. We describe an approach that relies on freely available data and generic species, virtual species whose profile consists of ecological requirements designed to reflect the needs of a group of real species, to address the new Planning Rule requirements. We present high-resolution connectivity estimates for 10 different generic species across a 379,000 ha study area centered on the Custer Gallatin National Forest (CGNF) in Montana and South Dakota under two different movement models. We identify locations important for connectivity for multiple species and characterize the role of the CGNF for regional connectivity. Our results informed the Plan Revision process on the CGNF and could be readily exported to other National Forests currently or planning to revise their land management plans under the new Planning Rule. K E Y W O R D Scoarse and fine filter, forest planning, generic species, National Forest Management Act, wildlife connectivity

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Integrating a generic focal species, metapopulation capacity, and connectivity to identify opportunities to link fragmented habitat

Cited by 14 publications

References 46 publications

Informing Canada’s commitment to biodiversity conservation: A science-based framework to help guide protected areas designation through Target 1 and beyond

Informing Canada’s commitment to biodiversity conservation: A science-based framework to help guide protected areas designation through Target 1 and beyond

Landscape connectivity for mammalian megafauna along the Iran-Turkmenistan-Afghanistan borderland

Incorporating wildlife connectivity into forest plan revision under the United States Forest Service's 2012 planning rule

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