Designing a graph-based approach to landscape ecological assessment of linear infrastructures

Does regional landscape connectivity influence the location of roe deer roadkill hotspots?

“…There are strong interactions between landscape covariates and connectivity. This finding is consistent with other studies related to landscape connectivity analysis (Foltête et al 2012b;Girardet et al 2013;Clauzel et al 2013).…”

Evaluating and Mitigating the Impact of a High-Speed Railway on Connectivity: A Case Study with an Amphibian Species in France

“…From this perspective, graph-based methods are interesting because they include both structural and functional aspects of connectivity. Our results are consistent with several previous studies that highlighted the importance of integrating the barrier effect in addition to the direct loss of habitat in environmental impact assessment Forman and Alexander 1998;Fu et al 2010;Girardet et al 2013;Liu et al 2014). …”

“…Several metrics can be computed at global level to assess connectivity for the entire graph or at local level for individual nodes or links (Galpern et al 2011). Graph-based studies have been used to identify the key elements for connectivity (Bodin and Saura 2010;Saura and Pascual-Hortal 2007), to evaluate the importance of connectivity for species distribution (Foltête et al 2012a;Galpern and Manseau 2013;Lookingbill et al 2010), to assess the impact assessment of a given development on connectivity Fu et al 2010;Girardet et al 2013;Gurrutxaga et al 2011;Liu et al 2014) or to propose mitigation measures for improving connectivity (Clauzel et al 2015a, b;Girardet et al 2016;Mimet et al 2016).…”

Assessing the impact of road developments on connectivity across multiple scales: Application to Yunnan snub-nosed monkey conservation

“…From this perspective, graphbased methods are interesting because they include both structural (arrangement of habitat patches) and functional (behavior of the organisms) aspects of connectivity (Dale and Fortin, 2010;Urban et al, 2009). These results are consistent with several previous studies that highlighted the importance of integrating the barrier effect in addition to the direct loss of habitat in environmental impact assessment Forman and Alexander, 1998;Fu et al, 2010;Girardet et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2014).…”