Final Report-Terrestrial Connectivity Across the South Central United States Implications for the Sustainability of Wildlife Populations and Communities

With the extensive loss and fragmentation of most native habitats, connectivity has become increasingly important for sustaining wildlife populations and communities. Connectivity can be defined as the extent to which the landscape facilitates or impedes the movement of organisms among patches of habitat. The goal of this project was to evaluate terrestrial connectivity across the South Central United States. We addressed this goal using a variety of approaches, including evaluating connectivity of major habitats (grasslands and forests), predicting future changes in landscape connectivity for grassland species under future land-use change scenarios, assessing terrestrial vertebrate diversity in relation to habitat...

Types: Report; Tags: Climate Change Impacts, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Other Wildlife, All tags... South Central CASC, South Central CASC, Wildlife and Plants, wildlife habitat connectivity, wildlife populations, Fewer tags