Parks and freshwater and saltwater wetlands create new ecosystems, facilitating greater ecological connectivity, improving water quality, and enhancing opportunities for habitat growth.
Such stories can win support for preserving the corridors that wildlife use to migrate, Mr. Aune said, adding: "If I say, 'We need to protect ecological connectivity,' people will say, 'What is that?' We have to have something the public can grasp.
The approach identifies potential priority corridors for ecological connectivity networks.
Ecological connectivity is not assured, as can be observed in the map (Figure 6).
Connectivity conservation seeks to restore ecological connectivity at a landscape scale through collaborative conservation.
Because forest fragmentation affects ecological connectivity, establishing corridors is increasingly important in conserving biodiversity.
We defined two new compound indices: one for ecological connectivity and another for the barrier effect.
Trees along linear features are important landscape features, and their loss threatens ecological connectivity.
In this context, ecological connectivity becomes a key to host biodiversity.
Strategic approaches to biodiversity conservation increasingly emphasise the restoration of ecological connectivity at landscape scales.
Ecological connectivity networks have been proposed as an efficient way to reconnect communities in fragmented landscapes.
