Does wildlife resource selection accurately inform corridor conservation?

Wildlife Corridor Auctions

Investigating the potential of opportunistic sighting data to inform wildlife conservation strategies

8 Abundance and space use are key population-level parameters used to inform management and conservation decisions 9 of rare and elusive species, for which monitoring resources can be limited, potentially affecting quality of 10 model-based inference. Recently-developed methods that integrate multiple data sources arising from the same 11 ecological process have typically been focused on data f...

Wildlife Conservation Education

Emerging challenges of wildlife conservation require a multipronged approach in order to have a lasting impact. Conservation of wildlife species, their habitats, and other natural ecosystems such as water catchment areas and wetlands are increasingly coming under intense pressure and threat of extirpation. The pressure is as a result of an increase in human population, changing land uses, and t...

Corridor Selection and Fine Tuning for the Corridor Method

In this paper we present a novel hybrid algorithm, in which ideas from the genetic algorithm and the GRASP metaheuristic are cooperatively used and intertwined to dynamically adjust a key parameter of the corridor method, i.e., the corridor width, during the search process. In addition, a fine-tuning technique for the corridor method is then presented. The response surface methodology is employ...

The Steiner Multigraph Problem: Wildlife Corridor Design for Multiple Species

The conservation of wildlife corridors between existing habitat preserves is important for combating the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation facing species of concern. We introduce the Steiner Multigraph Problem to model the problem of minimum-cost wildlife corridor design for multiple species with different landscape requirements. This problem can also model other analogous settings in w...