Mountain biodiversity is under unprecedented threat due to climate change and excessive human activity. Although protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of nature conservation, it increasingly hard for isolated PAs maintain species ecological processes they depend on in long term. Linking reserves form a large connected conservation network regarded as optimal measure, but research this field...

Urban expansion increases fragmentation of the landscape. In effect, fragmentation decreases connectivity, causes green space loss and impacts upon the ecology and function of green space. Restoration of the functionality of green space often requires restoring the ecological connectivity of this green space within the city matrix. However, identifying ecological corridors that integrate differ...

The rapid development of urbanization has caused many ecological issues and greatly threatened the sustainable human society. construction security patterns (ESPs) offers an effective way to balance conservation urbanization. This study aimed take highly urbanized city Shenzhen, China, as a area construct urban ESP put forward suggestions for security. Ecological sources were identified through...

Human activities such as urbanization and roads have disrupted movement and gene flow for plants, reptiles, mammals, sedentary birds, and arthropods [1,2]. Indeed, human-caused habitat fragmentation is a leading threat to biodiversity [3]. As plant and animal populations become smaller and more isolated they become more susceptible to stochastic events and reduced genetic diversity via drift an...

The newly proposed concept, the Regional Pattern for Ecological Security (RPES), provided an integrated strategy for implementing ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation at regional scale. Based on the concept and its theoretical basis, the designing principles and a preliminary method were put forward. With the method, the Regional Pattern for Ecological Security of the area along ...

Even with global support for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation their survival is threatened by poaching, habitat loss and isolation. Currently about 3,000 wild tigers persist in small fragmented populations within seven percent of their historic range. Identifying and securing habitat linkages that connect source populations for maintaining landscape-level gene flow is an important long-term...

Edge effects are increasingly important in British Columbia forests, as cutblocks become smaller and harvesting options with retention patches are more commonly used. This note summarizes edge effects for  ecosystem variables, including microclimate, soil chemistry, snow depth, windthrow, regeneration, vegetation, and animals, at the Sicamous Creek Silvicultural Systems project in a high-elev...

Most studies dealing with species distribution patterns on fragmented landscapes focus on the characteristics of habitat patches that influence local occurrence and abundance, but they tend to neglect the question of what drives colonization of previously unoccupied patches. In a study of the dryad butterfly, we combined classical approaches derived from metapopulation theory and landscape ecol...

Habitat fragmentation due to human activities creates threats wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and increases human-elephant conflicts (HEC). This study analyzed connectivity maps among the core habitats of in eastern part Thailand. Resistance surfaces, associated with geographic land use features, were used estimate dispersal elephants. An increase roads, reservoirs, agricultural areas 20...

As the human population expands, landscapes worldwide are becoming fragmented into remnant patches of original habitat, surrounded by agriculture and other human land uses. With diminishing opportunities to preserve large tracts of pristine habitat, the future of biodiversity conservation lies increasingly in these fragmented areas. Therefore, understanding the processes at work in fragmented l...