A Note on Creating Robust Resistance Surfaces for Computing Functional Landscape Connectivity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7755772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Theobald (0000-0002-1271-9368, Colorado State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance, Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-01405-1002r01 |
| OpenAlex | W55932895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Increasingly, conservation scientists are using geographical information systems (GIS) and, in particular, cost-weighted methods to compute metrics of landscape connectivity. Rothley (2005) raised an important technical issue that scientists need to be aware of when using these methods. Costweighted methods are used to compute the connectivity of a surface, a raster, by specifying the cost of traveling across a landscape using a surface of cost-weights. This surface is often called the friction or resistance surface (Knaapen et al. 1992) or its inverse, the permeability surface (Singleton et al. 2002). In GIS literature, this general method has been typically called cost-weighted distance and least-cost path analysis (Eastman 1989, Berry 1993, Douglas 1994, reviewed in Theobald 2005b)
Geometry · Graph · Raster graphics · Resistance distance · Computer Science · Mathematics · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation · Artificial Intelligence · Theoretical Computer Science
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |