Evaluating multispecies landscape connectivity in a threatened tropical mammal community

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-132

  Brodie, Jedediah F ^a   Giordano, Anthony J ^b   Dickson, Brett ^c,d   Hebblewhite, Mark ^e   Bernard, Henry ^f   Mohd Azlan, Jayasilan ^g   Anderson, Jesse ^c   Ambu, Laurentius ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Conservation Science Partners Inc ^*  (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^g UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^h SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Borneo; Dispersal; Fragmentation; Habitat corridor; Heart of Borneo; Logging; Multispecies conservation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS UNICOLOR; HELARCTOS MALAYANUS; HEMIGALUS DERBYANUS; MACACA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MAMMALIA; NEOFELIS; NEOFELIS NEBULOSA; VIVERRIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALAYSIA; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAIN FOREST;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BORNEO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MALAYSIA; MAMMALS; RAINFOREST;

EID: 84921436733     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12337     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Baguette, M., S. Blanchet, D. Legrand, V. M. Stevens, and C. Turlure. 2013. Individual dispersal, landscape connectivity and ecological networks. Biological Reviews 88:310-326.
2. Beier, P., and S. Loe. 1992. A checklist for evaluating impacts to wildlife movement corridors. Wildlife Society Bulletin 20:434-440.
3. Beier, P., D. R. Majka, and W. D. Spencer. 2008. Forks in the road: choices in procedures for designing wildland linkages. Conservation Biology 22:836-851.
4. Beier, P., W. Spencer, R. F. Baldwin, and B. H. McRae. 2011. Toward best practices for developing regional connectivity maps. Conservation Biology 25:879-892.
5. Brodie, J., E. Post, and W. F. Laurance. 2012. Climate change and tropical biodiversity: a new focus. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27:145-150.
6. Brodie, J. F., and A. Giordano. 2013. Lack of trophic release with large mammal predators and prey in Borneo. Biological Conservation 163:58-67.
7. Brodie, J. F., O. E. Helmy, W. Y. Brockelman, and J. L. Maron. 2009. Bushmeat poaching reduces the seed dispersal and population growth rate of a mammal-dispersed tree. Ecological Applications 19:854-863.
8. Bruner, A. G., R. E. Gullison, R. E. Rice, and G. A. B. da Fonseca. 2001. Effectiveness of parks in protecting tropical biodiversity. Science 291:125-128.
9. Caro, T. M. 2003. Umbrella species: critique and lessons from East Africa. Animal Conservation 6:171-181.
10. Carroll, C., J. R. Dunk, and A. Moilanen. 2010. Optimizing resiliency of reserve networks to climate change: multispecies conservation planning in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Global Change Biology 16:891-904.
11. Corlett, R. T. 2009. The ecology of tropical East Asia. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
12. Cross, M. S., J. A. Hilty, G. M. Tabor, J. J. Lawler, L. J. Graumlich, and J. Berger. 2012. From connect-the-dots to dynamic networks: maintaining and enhancing connectivity as a strategy to address climate change impacts on wildlife. Pages 307-329 in J. F. Brodie, E. Post, and D. F. Doak, editors. Wildlife conservation in a changing climate. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
13. Culmsee, H., and C. Leuschner. 2013. Consistent patterns of elevational change in tree taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity across Malesian mountain forests. Journal of Biogeography 40:1997-2010.
14. Curran, L. M., and M. Leighton. 2000. Vertebrate responses to spatiotemporal variation in seed production of mast-fruiting dipterocarpaceae. Ecological Monographs 70:101-128.
15. Curran, L. M., S. N. Trigg, A. K. McDonald, D. Astiani, Y. M. Hardiono, P. Siregar, I. Caniago, and E. Kasischke. 2004. Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo. Science 303:1000-1003.
16. Early, R., and C. D. Thomas. 2007. Multispecies conservation planning: identifying landscapes for the conservation of viable populations using local and continental species priorities. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:253-262.
17. Epps, C. W., B. M. Mutayoba, L. Gwin, and J. S. Brashares. 2011. An empirical evaluation of the African elephant as a focal species for connectivity planning in East Africa. Diversity and Distributions 17:603-612.
18. Estrada, E., and O. Bodin. 2008. Using network centrality measures to manage landscape connectivity. Ecological Applications 18:1810-1825.
19. Fieberg, J., J. Matthiopoulos, M. Hebblewhite, M. S. Boyce, and J. L. Frair. 2010. Correlation and studies of habitat selection: Problem, red herring or opportunity? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 365:2233-2244.
20. Grassman, L. I., M. E. Tewes, N. J. Silvy, and K. Kreetiyutanont. 2005. Ecology of three sympatric felids in a mixed evergreen forest in north-central Thailand. Journal of Mammalogy 86:29-38.
21. Hazebroek, H. P., and A. K. B. A. Morshidi. 2001. National parks of Sarawak. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
22. IUCN. 2013. Red list of threatened species 2013.1. International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Available from www.iucnredlist.org (accessed May 2013).
23. IUCN and UNEP. 2009. The world database on protected areas. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the United Nations Environment Programme. Cambridge, United Kingdom. Available from www.wdpa.org (accessed October 2013).
24. Lambeck, R. J. 1997. Focal species: a multi-species umbrella for nature conservation. Conservation Biology 11:849-856.
25. Laurance, W. F., et al. 2011. The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: a 32-year investigation. Biological Conservation 144:56-67.
26. McRae, B. H. 2012. Pinchpoint Mapper Connectivity Analysis Software. The Nature Conservancy, Seattle. Available from http://www.circuitscape.org/linkagemapper (accessed December 2013).
27. McRae, B. H., B. G. Dickson, T. H. Keitt, and V. B. Shah. 2008. Using circuit theory to model connectivity in ecology, evolution, and conservation. Ecology 89:2712-2724.
28. McRae, B. H., and D. M. Kavanagh. 2011. Linkage Mapper connectivity analysis software. The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, USA. www.circuitscape.org/linkagemapper (accessed May 2013).
29. McRae, B. H., and V. B. Shah. 2011. Circuitscape user guide, Online. The University of California, Santa Barbara. Available at: http://www.circuitscape.org (accessed December 2013).
30. Miettinen, J., C. H. Shi, W. J. Tan, and S. C. Liew. 2012. 2010 land cover map of insular Southeast Asia in 250-m spatial resolution. Remote Sensing Letters 3:11-20.
31. Minor, E. S., and T. R. Lookingbill. 2010. A Multiscale network analysis of protected-area connectivity for mammals in the United States. Conservation Biology 24:1549-1558.
32. Newby, J. 2011. Puma dispersal ecology in the central Rocky Mountains. Masters thesis, University of Montana, Missoula.
33. Nijman, V. 2004. Effects of habitat disturbance and hunting on the density and the biomass of the endemic Hose's leaf monkey Presbytis hosei (Thomas, 1889) (Mammalia: Primates : Cercopithecidae) in east Borneo. Contributions to Zoology 73:283-291.
34. Noon, B. R., K. S. McKelvey, and B. G. Dickson. 2009. Multispecies conservation planning on U.S. federal lands. Pages 51-84 in J. Millspaugh and F. R. Thompson, editors. Models for planning wildlife conservation in large landscapes. Academic Press, Burlington, Vermont.
35. Proffitt, K. M., J. A. Gude, K. L. Hamlin, and M. A. Messer. 2013. Effects of hunter access and habitat security on elk habitat selection in landscapes with a public and private land matrix. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:514-524.
36. Prugh, L. R., K. E. Hodges, A. R. E. Sinclair, and J. S. Brashares. 2008. Effect of habitat area and isolation on fragmented animal populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:20770-20775.
37. Roberge, J. M., and P. Angelstam. 2004. Usefulness of the umbrella species concept as a conservation tool. Conservation Biology 18:76-85.
38. Royle, J. A. 2004. N-mixture models for estimating population size from spatially replicated counts. Biometrics 60:108-115.
39. Sawyer, S. C., C. W. Epps, and J. S. Brashares. 2011. Placing linkages among fragmented habitats: Do least-cost models reflect how animals use landscapes? Journal of Applied Ecology 48:668-678.
40. Schwenk, W. S., and T. M. Donovan. 2011. A multispecies framework for landscape conservation planning. Conservation Biology 25:1010-1021.
41. SCORE. 2011. Sarawak corridor of renewable energy, Annual Report. Regional Corridor Development Authority, Kuching, Malaysia.
42. Simberloff, D. 1998. Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones: Is single-species management passe in the landscape era? Biological Conservation 83:247-257.
43. Soule, M. E., and J. Terborgh 1999. Continental conservation. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
44. Tobler, M. W. 2009. New GPS technology improves fix success for large mammal collars in dense tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:217-221.
45. Urban, D. L., E. S. Minor, E. A. Treml, and R. S. Schick. 2009. Graph models of habitat mosaics. Ecology Letters 12:260-273.
46. USDA. 2011. Commodity Intelligence report: June 28, 2011. Malaysia: obstacles may reduce future palm oil production growth. United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service. Available from http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/highlights/2011/06/Malaysia/ (accessed November 2013).
47. Wilcove, D. S., X. Giam, D. P. Edwards, B. Fisher, and L. P. Koh. 2013. Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 28:531-540.
48. Woodroffe, R., and J. R. Ginsberg. 1998. Edge effects and the extinction of populations inside protected areas. Science 280:2126-2128.
49. Wulffraat, S., and J. Morrison. 2013. Measuring biological indicators for status assessment of the heart of Borneo. Environmental Conservation 40:277-286.
50. Yackulic, C. B., S. Strindberg, F. Maisels, and S. Blake. 2011. The spatial structure of hunter access determines the local abundance of forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis). Ecological Applications 21:1296-1307.