Wildlife Linkages
Connectivity for Wildlife’s research focuses on wildlife linkages and corridors. Gathering data on wildlife absence/presence and movement patterns is critical to providing these viable linkages.
Problems Associated with Fragmented habitats
High traffic roads cutting through core habitat can result in:
- Restricting species movement
- Reducing the population size through road kill mortalities. (Forman & Alexander 1998)
Research Objectives
Identify habitat linkages for multiple species using field camera stations and formal wildlife tracking
methods.
Possible Solutions to the Effects of Habitat Fragmentation
Corridors: maintain landscape connectivity by preserving habitat for the movement of species between
fragments. (Soule & Terborgh 1999)
Successful Corridor Designs:
- Underpasses
- Land Bridges
- Culverts
- Other Infrastructure
