An ecological network for large carnivores as a key tool for protecting landscape connectivity in the Carpathians

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2023.2290858" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2023.2290858</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2023.2290858" target="_blank" >10.1080/17445647.2023.2290858</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An ecological network for large carnivores as a key tool for protecting landscape connectivity in the Carpathians

Original language description

The research was carried out within the international project DTP263 ConnectGREEN – Restoring and managing ecological corridors in mountains as the green infrastructure in the Danube basin (DTP2-072-2.3), supported by Interreg Danube Programme, co-financed by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The main aim of the study was to delineate a coherent ecological network for large carnivores, using a unified methodology, which would be flexible and serve as a basis for nature and habitat connectivity protection across the Carpathians. We applied a comprehensive methodological approach based on habitat suitability modelling followed by connectivity modelling. For the habitat suitability modelling, we used a robust set of large carnivores occurrence data, which allowed us to build a solid model. From the model, we derived a layer of patches of suitable habitat of required quality and resistance surface to express landscape permeability. Both outputs were crucial for the connectivity modelling. We applied Random Walk and Least-Cost Path models and combined them to determine feasible connections between suitable habitats. With expert discussions and editing/improvement of modelled corridors, we developed a unique ecological network consisting of various components adapted to the heterogeneity of the Carpathian landscape.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Maps

ISSN

1744-5647

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

2290858

UT code for WoS article

001126217600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85180504869