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Title (Primary) Optimizing a network of patchy habitats - from model results to rules of thumb for landscape management
Title (Secondary) Linking protected areas with working landscapes conserving biodiversity. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas (SAMPA III, Calgary, Canada 1997
Author Frank, K. ORCID logo
Publisher Munro, N.W.P.; Willison, J.H.M.
Year 1998
Department OESA
Page From 59
Page To 72
Language englisch
Abstract The effect of interconnecting patchy habitats on species survival may depend on a variety of factors. Consequently, guidelines are needed which enable planners to decide where to invest scarce management resources with maximum effects. In the present paper we demonstrate how a mathematical model can be used to reveal the limiting factors for the functional response of meta-population survival to interconnecting management. It is shown that, whenever the patchy habitats vary in size or quality, adding of connections is not inevitably advantageous to survival. Specifically, an ecological classification of the optimum pattern of connectedness is given. Finally, some rules of thumb for optimizing a network of one protected area and several working landscapes are deduced.
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Frank, K. (1998):
Optimizing a network of patchy habitats - from model results to rules of thumb for landscape management
In: Munro, N.W.P., Willison, J.H.M. (eds.)
Linking protected areas with working landscapes conserving biodiversity. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas (SAMPA III, Calgary, Canada 1997
p. 59 - 72