Multi-taxa population connectivity in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 231, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-112

  Cushman, Samuel A ^a   Landguth, Erin L ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Connectivity; Corridor; Resistant kernel; Umbrella species

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MOVEMENT; CONNECTIVITY; CORRIDOR; RESISTANT KERNEL; UMBRELLA SPECIES;

BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS;

CONSERVATION;

CARNIVORE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; SPECIALIST;

BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84857970373     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Adriaensen F., Chardon J.P., De Blust G., Swinnen E., Villalba S., Gulinck H., Matthysen E. The application of 'least-cost' modelling as a functional landscape model. Landscape and Urban Planning 2003, 64:233-247.
2. Beier P., Brost B. Use of land facets to plan for climate change: conserving the arenas, not the actors. Conservation Biology 2010, 24:701-710.
3. Beier P., Loe S. In my experience: a checklist for evaluating the impacts to wildlife movement corridors. Wildlife Society Bulletin 1992, 20:434-440.
4. Beier, P., Majka, D., Bayless, T., 2007. Linkage designs for Arizona. Corridor Design. Available from (accessed May 2011). http://www.corridordesign.org/linkages/arizona.
5. Beier, P., Majka, D., Bayless, T., 2009a. Linkage designs for Arizona's missing linkages. Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix. Available from (accessed September 2009). http://www.corridordesign.org/arizona/.
6. Beier P., Majka D.R., Newell S.L. Uncertainty analysis of least-cost modeling for designing wildlife linkages. Ecological Applications 2009, 19:2067-2077.
7. Beier P., Noss R.F. Do habitat corridors provide connectivity?. Conservation Biology 1998, 12:1241-1252.
8. Beier P., Penrod K., Luke C., Spencer W., Cabanero C. South Coast missing linkages: restoring connectivity to wildlands in the largest metropolitan area in the USA. Connectivity Conservation 2006, 555-586. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. K.R. Crooks, M.A. Sanjayan (Eds.).
9. Berger J., Cain S.L., Berger K.M. Connecting the dots: an invariant migration corridor links the Holocene to the present. Biology Letters 2006, 2:528-531.
10. Carroll C., Noss R.F., Paquet P.C. Carnivores as focal species for conservation planning in the rocky mountain region. Ecological Applications 2001, 11:961-980.
11. Carroll C., Dunk J.R., Moilanen A. Optimizing resiliency of reserve networks to climate change: multispecies conservation planning in the PacificNorthwest, USA. Global Change Biology 2010, 16:891-904.
12. Compton B., McGarigal K., Cushman S.A., Gamble L. A resistant kernel model of connectivity for vernal pool breeding amphibians. Conservation Biology 2007, 21:788-799.
13. Cushman S.A. Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on amphibians: a review and prospectus. Biological Conservation 2006, 128:231-240.
14. Cushman S.A., Landguth E.L. Scale dependent inference in landscape genetics. Landscape Ecology 2010, 25:967-979.
15. Cushman, S.A., Landguth, E.L., Flather, C.H., 2011. Climate change and connectivity: assessing landscape and species vulnerability. Final Report to USFWS Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, 103 pp.
16. Cushman S.A., Schwartz M.K., Hayden J., McKelvey K.S. Gene flow in complex landscapes: testing multiple hypotheses with causal modeling. American Naturalist 2006, 168:486-499.
17. Cushman S.A., McKelvey K.S., Schwartz M.K. Using empirically derived source-destination models to map regional conservation corridors. Conservation Biology 2008, 23:368-376.
18. Cushman S.A., Compton B.W., McGarigal K. Habitat fragmentation effects depend on complex interactions between population size and dispersal ability: modeling influences of roads agriculture and residential development across a range of life-history characteristics. Spatial Complexity, Informatics and Wildlife Conservation 2010, 369-387. Springer, Tokyo. S.A. Cushman, F. Huettman (Eds.).
19. Cushman S.A., McGarial K., Gutzwiller K., Evans J. The gradient paradigm: a conceptual and analytical framework for landscape ecology. Spatial Complexity, Informatics and Wildlife Conservation 2010, 83-110. Springer, Tokyo. S.A. Cushman, F. Huettman (Eds.).
20. East R. Species-area curves and populations of large mammals in African savanna reserves. Biological Conservation 1981, 21:111-126.
21. Eisenberg J.E. The density and biomass of trpical mammals. Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective 1988, 35-55. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. M.E. Soule, B.A. Wilcox (Eds.).
22. Fleishman E., Murhphy D.D., Brussard P.F. A new method for selecting umbrella species for conservation planning. Ecological Applications 2000, 10:569-579.
23. Grand J., Buonaccorsi J., Cushman S.A., Mello M., Griffin C.R. A comparison of predicted and observed bird and moth rarity hotspots in a threatened pitch pine - scrub oak (Pinus rigida-Querecus ilicifolia) community. Conservation Biology 2004, 18:1063-1077.
24. Haddad N.M., Bowne D.R., Cunningham A., Danielson B.J., Levey D.J., Sargent S., Spira T. Corridor use by diverse taxa. Ecology 2003, 84:609-615.
25. Harris L.D., Gallagher P.B. New initiatives for wildlife conservation: the need for movement corridors. Preserving Communities and Corridors 1984, 11-34. Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, DC. G. Mackintosh (Ed.).
26. Harrison S., Bruna E. Habitat fragmentation and large-scale conservation: what do we know for sure. Ecography 1999, 22:225-232.
27. Hess G.R., Fischer R.A. Communicating clearly about conservation corridors. Landscape and Urban Planning 2001, 55:195-208.
28. Hobbs R.J. The role of corridors in conservation: a solution or bandwagon. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 1992, 7:389-392.
29. Lambeck R.J. Focal species: a multispecies umbrella for nature conservation. Conservation Biology 1997, 11:849-856.
30. Landguth E.L., Hand B.K., Glassy J., Cushman S.A. UNICOR: a species connectivity and corridor network simulator. Ecography 2011.
31. McGarigal K., Cushman S.A. The gradient concept of landscape structure. Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology 2005, 112-119. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. J. Wiens, M. Moss (Eds.).
32. Minor E.S., Lookingbill T.R. Network analysis of protected-area connectivity for mammals in the United States. Conservation Biology 2010, 10.1111/j. 1523-1739.2010.01558.x.
33. Noss R.F. A regional landscape approach to maintain biodiversity. BioScience 1983, 33:206-700.
34. Noss R.F. Landscape connectivity: different functions at different scales. landscape Linkages and Biodiversity 1991, 27-39. Island Press, Washington, DC. W.E. Hudson (Ed.).
35. Noss R.F. Wildlife corridors. Ecology of greenways 1993, 43-68. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. D.S. Smith, P.C. Hellmund (Eds.).
36. Noss R.F., Quigley H.B., Hornocker M.G., Merrill T., Paquet P.C. Conservation biology and carnivore conservation in the Rocky Mountains. Conservation Biology 1996, 10:949-963.
37. Peterson R.O. The pit or the pendulum: issues in large carnivore management in natural ecosystems. Ecosystem Management for Parks and Wilderness 1988, 105-117. University of Washington, Seattle. J.K. Agee, D.R. Johnson (Eds.).
38. Roberge J-M., Angelstam P. Usefulness of the umbrella species concept as a conservation tool. Conservation Biology 2004, 18:76-85.
39. Rosenberg D.K., Noon B.R., Meslow E.C. Biological corridors: form, function, efficacy. BioScience 1997, 47:677-687.
40. Schwartz M.K., Copeland J.P., Anderson N.J., Squires J.R., Inman R.M., McKelvey K.S., Pilgrim K.L., Waits L.P., Cushman S.A. Wolverine gene flow across a narrow climatic niche. Ecology 2009, 90:3222-3232.
41. Shafer C.L. Nature Reserves: Island Theory and Conservation Practice 1990, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
42. Shirk A.S., Wallin D.O., Cushman S.A., Rice R.C., Warheit C. Inferring landscape effects on gene flow: a new multi-scale model selection framework. Molecular Ecology 2010, 19:3603-3619.
43. Short Bull R.A., Cushman S.A., Mace R., Chilton T., Kendall K.C., Landguth E.L., Schwartz M.K., McKelvey K.S., Allendorf F.W., Luikart G. Why replication is important in landscape genetics: American black bear in the Rocky Mountains. Molecular Ecology 2011, 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04944.x.
44. Simberloff D., Farr J.A., Cox J., Mehlman D.W. Movement corridors: conservation bargains or poor investments. Conservation Biology 1992, 6:493-504.
45. Soule ME. Introduction. Viable Populations for Conservation 1987, 1-10. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. M.E. Soule (Ed.).
46. Spear S.F., Peterson C.R., Matocq M.D., Storfer A. Landscape genetics of the blotched tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostichtum). Molecular Ecology 2005, 14:2553-2564.
47. Taylor P.D., Fahrig L., Henein K., Merriam G. Connectivity is a vital element of landscape structure. Oikos 1993, 68:571-573.
48. Vignieri SN Streams over mountains: influence of riparian connectivity on gene flow of Pacific jumping mouse (Zapus trinotatus). Molecular Ecology 2005, 14:1925-1937.
49. Wasserman T.N., Cushman S.A., Schwartz M.K., Wallin D.O. Spatial scaling and multi-model inference in landscape genetics: Martes americana in northern Idaho. Landscape Ecology 2010, 10.1007/s10980-010-9525-7.
50. Wasserman T.N., Cushman S.A., Shirk A.S., Littell J.S. Simulating the Effects of Climate Change on Population Connectivity of American Marten (Martes americana) in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA. Landscape Ecology 2012, 27(2):211-225.
51. Weaver, J.L., Paquet, P.C., Ruggiero, L.F., 1996. Resilience and conservation of large carnivores in the Rocky Mountains. Conservation Biology, 10, 964-976.