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Data from: Conserving habitat for migratory ungulates: how wide is a migration corridor?
<ol> <li>Conserving migratory ungulates relies on the analysis of GPS collar data and associated maps of migration corridors to inform management and policy actions. Current methods for identifying migratory corridors use complex statistical models designed to account for movement uncertainty rather than estimating the amount of space required by animals to migrate. Further, such methods can complicate conservation efforts by producing highly variable corridor widths and non-contiguous corridors that do not fully connect seasonal ranges.</li> <li>To remedy this, we propose an intuitive line buffer approach for delineating individual migration corridors that is simple to implement and focuses on the functional corridor widths needed by migratory ungulates. </li> <li>By buffering a line that connects successive GPS locations, we can delineate individual migration corridors with consistent widths that are robust to variable parameters (GPS fix-rate, travel speed, tortuosity) and provide contiguous connection between seasonal ranges. Using a combination of expert knowledge, simulation, and 10-min GPS collar data collected from mule deer (<em>Odocoileus</em> <em>hemionus</em>) and pronghorn (<em>Antilocapra</em> <em>americana</em>), we suggest 400 to 600 m are reasonable estimates of functional migration corridor widths for individuals of those species.</li> <li>Our line buffer approach is intended to simplify migration corridor delineation, improve transparency, and encourage a broader discussion of functional corridor widths. These considerations help advance efforts to conserve habitat within migration corridors and prioritize conservation efforts within a single corridor or across multiple corridors.</li> </ol>
Data from: Drivers of geomorphic heterogeneity in unconfined non‐perennial river corridors
<p>River corridors along non-perennial stream networks are known to provide diverse physical and ecological functions that are thought to be related to geomorphic heterogeneity. Geomorphic heterogeneity refers to the spatial and temporal variability of geomorphic units, which are geomorphic patches within the river corridor formed by a given set of processes. While studies on the magnitude and drivers of geomorphic heterogeneity are emerging in perennial streams, similar studies in ephemeral streams are lacking. Given the ubiquity of non-perennial streams globally, we aim to answer questions regarding the magnitude and drivers of geomorphic heterogeneity in non-perennial river corridors as well as how geomorphic units and heterogeneity reflect processes related to flood disturbance. Geomorphic units were mapped in 30 unconfined river corridors within six non-perennial watersheds in Utah and Arizona, USA. Landscape heterogeneity metrics – Shannon's Diversity Index, Shannon's Evenness Index, and patch density – were used to quantify geomorphic heterogeneity within each reach. Additionally, variables that may potentially constrain or drive heterogeneity were quantified, including floodplain shape, grain size, large wood abundance, and proxies for flood disturbance. While heterogeneity positively correlated with metrics for morphology and disturbance, statistical models suggest that morphologic context, particularly floodplain width, was a more important predictor for estimating geomorphic heterogeneity. Still, geomorphic units reflected aggradation processes indicative of a range of flood energies, suggesting a strong tie between heterogeneity and disturbance. Results suggest that geomorphic heterogeneity may be resilient to changes in flood disturbance frequency or magnitude, but future studies investigating long-term temporal heterogeneity are needed.</p>
This Land is Your Land, This Could Be Marsh Land: Property Parcel Characteristics of Marsh Migration Corridors in Rhode Island, USA
<p>These data on Rhode Island property parcels and salt marsh migration projections support a project analyzing their overlap. Salt marshes, critical habitats offering many ecosystem services, are threatened by development, sea level rise (SLR) and other anthropogenic stressors that are projected to worsen. As seas rise, some salt marshes can migrate inland if there is adjacent, permeable, undeveloped land available. Facilitating marsh migration is necessary for coastal resilience efforts, but extensive coastal development can make finding suitable migration corridors challenging. This work seeks to characterize the changes in land use, ownership, and economic value at the property parcel level within projected 2050 marsh extent for the state of Rhode Island, USA. We find that most parcels currently containing salt marsh are publicly owned, whereas most adjacent parcels projected to contain new salt marsh in 2050 are privately owned. Additionally, parcels containing new marsh in 2050 have 47% higher per-hectare assessed values than parcels containing current marsh. We describe the locations and characteristics of parcels within migration corridors with the lowest per-hectare values that may be the most cost-effective for marsh conservation practitioners to protect. This study highlights the expanding land use types and landowner sets that will be involved in marsh conservation decisions, and the economic value of potential migration corridors where costly tradeoffs may be necessary to promote coastal resilience.</p>
Data from: Estimating ungulate migration corridors from sparse movement data
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The African development corridors database 2022
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Dataset for: An optimisation approach for designing wildlife corridors with ecological and spatial considerations
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Data from: Sample size guidelines for mapping migration corridors and population distributions using tracking data
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Underlying microevolutionary processes parallel macroevolutionary patterns in ancient Neotropical Mountains - Ecological Niche Modeling and Corridors files
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Caught in a bottleneck: Habitat loss for woolly mammoths in central North America and the ice-free corridor during the last deglaciation
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Data from: Conserving habitat for migratory ungulates: how wide is a migration corridor?
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Data from: Drivers of geomorphic heterogeneity in unconfined non‐perennial river corridors
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Data from: Comparative landscape genetics of two frugivorous bats in a biological corridor undergoing agricultural intensification
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Data from: Landscape genetics identifies streams and drainage infrastructure as dispersal corridors for an endangered wetland bird
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Data from: Comparative phylogeography biogeography of forest-dependent mammals reveals paleo-forest corridors throughout Sundaland
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Pairing functional connectivity with population dynamics to prioritize corridors for Southern California spotted owls
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Field margins as ecological corridors: Uncovering connectivity in agricultural landscapes using high-resolution tracking data and translocation experiments
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Dataset: Corridor quality buffers extinction under extreme droughts in experimental metapopulations
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Data from: Postglacial recolonization of North America by spadefoot toads: integrating niche and corridor modeling to study species' range dynamics over geologic time
<p>Understanding the factors that shape species' distributions is a key topic in biogeography. As climates change, species can either cope with these changes through evolution, plasticity or by shifting their ranges to track the optimal climatic conditions. Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is a widespread technique in biogeography that estimates the niche of the organism by using occurrences and environmental data to estimate species' potential distributions. ENMs are often criticized for failing to take species' dispersal abilities into consideration. Here, we attempt to fill this gap by combining ENMs with dispersal and corridor modeling to study the range dynamics of North American spadefoot toads (Scaphiopodidae) over the Holocene. We first estimated the current and past distributions of spadefoot toads and then estimated their past distributions from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present day. Then, we estimated how each taxon recolonized North American by using dispersal and corridor modeling. By combining these two modeling approaches we were able to 1) estimate the LGM refugia used by the North American spadefoot toads, 2) further refine these projections by estimating which of the putative LGM refugia contributed to the recolonization of North America via dispersal, and 3) estimate the relative influence of each LGM refugium to the current species' distributions. The models were tested using previously published phylogeographic data, revealing a high degree of congruence between our models and the genetic data. These results suggest that combining ENMs and dispersal modeling over time is a promising approach to investigate both historical and future species' range dynamics.</p>
Data from: Corridors restore animal-mediated pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes
Tropical biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions have become heavily eroded through habitat loss. Animal-mediated pollination is required in >94% of higher tropical plant species and 75% of the world´s leading food crops, but it remains unclear if corridors avert deforestation-driven pollination breakdown in fragmented tropical landscapes. Here, we used manipulative resource experiments and field observations to show that corridors functionally connect neotropical forest fragments for forest-associated hummingbirds and increase pollen transfer. Further, corridors boosted forest-associated pollinator availability in fragments by 14.3 times compared to unconnected equivalents, increasing overall pollination success. Plants in patches without corridors showed pollination rates equal to bagged control flowers, indicating pollination failure in isolated fragments. This indicates, for the first time, that corridors benefit tropical forest ecosystems beyond boosting local species richness, by functionally connecting mutualistic network partners. We conclude that small-scale adjustments to landscape configuration safeguard native pollinators and associated pollination services in tropical forest landscapes.
Data from: Corridors or risk? movement along, and use of, linear features vary predictably among large mammal predator and prey species
<p>1. Space-use behaviour reflects trade-offs in meeting ecological needs and can have consequences for individual survival and population demographics. The mechanisms underlying space-use can be understood by simultaneously evaluating habitat selection and movement patterns, and fine-resolution locational data are increasing our ability to do so. 2. We use high-resolution location data and an integrated step-selection analysis to evaluate caribou, moose, bear, and wolf habitat selection and movement behavior in response to anthropogenic habitat modification, though caribou data were limited. Space-use response to anthropogenic linear features (LFs) by predators and prey are hypothesized to increase predator hunting efficiency and are thus believed to be a leading factor in woodland caribou declines in western Canada. 3. We found that all species moved faster while on LFs. Wolves and bears were also attracted towards LFs, whereas prey species avoided them. Predators and prey responded less strongly and consistently to natural features such as streams, rivers and lakeshores. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that LFs facilitate predator movement and increase hunting efficiency, while prey perceive such features as risky. 4. Understanding the behavioural mechanisms underlying space-use patterns is important in understanding how future land-use may impact predator-prey interactions. Explicitly linking behaviour to fitness and demography will be important to fully understand the implications of management strategies.</p>
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