Connectivity of priority areas for the conservation of large carnivores in northern Mexico

Connecting tiger (Panthera tigris) populations in Nepal: Identification of corridors among tiger‐bearing protected areas

“…One of the primary steps in corridor modeling is to develop a travel‐cost resistance surface based on the key environmental variables which influence travel effort, thereby quantifying the expected difficulty the target species encountered in traversing the landscape (Zeller et al, 2012). There are various approaches available to optimize resistance surfaces, including but not limited to expert opinion (Dutta et al, 2016; Rathore et al, 2012), habitat suitability (Balbuena‐Serrano et al, 2022; González‐Saucedo et al, 2021), movement patterns (Carvalho et al, 2016; Proctor et al, 2015), genetic data (Dutta et al, 2022; Jennings et al, 2020), or combinations of these methods (Zeller et al, 2018; Ziółkowska et al, 2016). A resistance surface is generally developed by using empirical data on species distribution or movement in combination with key environmental and anthropogenic variables that may influence the movement of the species (Hilty et al, 2019; Wade et al, 2015).…”