Cats, connectivity and conservation: incorporating data sets and integrating scales for wildlife management
Understanding resource selection and quantifying habitat connectivity are fundamental to conservation planning for both land‐use and species management plans. However, data sets available to management authorities for resource selection and connectivity analyses are often highly limited and fragmentary. As a result, measuring connectivity is challenging, and often poorly integrated within conservation planning and wildlife management. To exacerbate the challenge, scale‐dependent resource use makes inference across scales problematic, resource use is often modelled in areas where the species is not present, and connectivity is typically measured using a source‐to‐sink approach, erroneously assuming animals possess predefined destinations.
Keywords: Panthera pardus; circuit theory; conductance; fragmentation; landscape resistance; land‐use planning; leopard; occupancy modelling; permeability; resource selection functions
Document Type: Research Article
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