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OOS-2:
Measuring landscape connectivity:
Tool for species conservation
Monday,
August 8, 8 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Rooms 510b and 510d, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizers:
Pavel Kindlemann (pavel@entu.cas.cz),
Francoise Burel, Jacques Baudry
Description:
One
of the central problems in contemporary ecology is fragmentation of habitats for
many wild living species leading to their local extinctions. Recolonization of
local extinctions is then critical for regional survival of the species. Success
in recolonization depends on the availability of dispersing individuals and the
ease with which these individuals can move about within the landscape,
“landscape connectivity”. The potential for landscape connectivity to impact
populations in heterogeneous landscapes, and the obvious implications for
species conservation, has led to a proliferation of connectivity measures.
However, general relationships between landscape connectivity and landscape
structure, and between different connectivity metrics, are lacking. In this
session, various approaches to measuring landscape connectivity in the
temporarily changing landscape will be discussed and put into context with
particular groups of organisms. This might shed light on the long-lasting debate
between the supporters of spatially explicit models for measuring landscape
connectivity and metapopulation biologists.
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