To ensure availability of connectivity in the CRAHN, adjacent clusters must be connected to each other.
The McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research program, or LTER, expects climate warming here to increase water availability, amplifying connectivity among glaciers, streams, soils and lakes.
The metrics we used included resource availability, potential connectivity, and forest fragmentation tendency.
Graph theory is used to represent the system components availability and connectivity to guide the restoration time algorithm.
Loss of native grasslands by anthropogenic disturbances has reduced availability and connectivity of habitat for many grassland species.
However, predicting how reintroduced populations will spread is difficult, and past reintroductions often lacked a thorough assessment of habitat availability and connectivity.
Our results also suggested that early successional species can be sensitive to both availability and connectivity of habitat on the landscape.
Using percolation theory, the theory of competitive exclusion processes, and the results of Monte Carlo simulations we show that a unimodal resource species relationship may be understood as a tradeoff between the availability and connectivity of resource patches.
The availability of connectivity to the world of products, friends, music, entertainment, and opportunity to self-express trumps nostalgia for lessons learned about patience and ingenuity from a "simpler past".
To identify which scenario is more detrimental to species persistence we summarize loss of undeveloped land area at the ecoregion level and then cross-walk these losses against measures of ecoregion habitat availability, habitat connectivity, and numbers of endangered and threatened species.
