Connecting the dots: Assessing landscape connectivity algorithms for biodiversity conservation

Peter Schippers, Rogier Pouwels and Jana Verboom

Ecological Modelling, 2025, vol. 507, issue C

Abstract: Biodiversity is currently facing threats from both climate change and habitat fragmentation. With climate zones (conditions) shifting pole-wards, the ability of populations to track these changes in fragmented landscapes are crucial for biodiversity conservation, while the ability of scientists to assess these dynamics is crucial for conservation planning. To simulate the movement of organisms in a fragmented landscape, scientists often use connectivity matrices - tables that contain the probabilities of successful dispersal between different pairs of habitat patches.

Keywords: Dispersal; Random-walk; Algorithm; Connectivity matrix; Metapopulation; Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111185

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