References

Primary literature underpinning the ekokrati.graph methods.

Foundational papers

Pascual-Hortal, L. & Saura, S. (2006). Comparison and development of new graph-based landscape connectivity indices: towards the priorization of habitat patches and corridors for conservation. Landscape Ecology, 21(7), 959–967. [Introduces IIC and the graph-theoretic framework for patch connectivity.]

Saura, S. & Pascual-Hortal, L. (2007). A new habitat availability index to integrate connectivity in landscape conservation planning: comparison with existing indices and application to a case study. Landscape and Urban Planning, 83(2–3), 91–103. [Introduces PC and EC(PC); the primary reference for the core metrics.]

Saura, S. & Rubio, L. (2010). A common currency for the different ways in which patches and links can contribute to habitat availability and connectivity in the landscape. Ecography, 33(3), 523–537. [Introduces the dPC decomposition into intra, flux, and connector components.]

Conefor — the reference implementation

Saura, S. & Torné, J. (2009). Conefor Sensinode 2.2: a software package for quantifying the importance of habitat patches for landscape connectivity. Environmental Modelling & Software, 24(1), 135–139.

Saura, S. & Torné, J. (2012). Conefor 2.6 user manual. Available at: www.conefor.org

Graph theory and landscape connectivity

Urban, D. & Keitt, T. (2001). Landscape connectivity: a graph-theoretic perspective. Ecology, 82(5), 1205–1218. [Foundational paper applying graph theory to landscape ecology.]

Minor, E.S. & Urban, D.L. (2008). A graph-theory framing of the geography of connectivity in fragmented landscapes. Conservation Biology, 22(2), 457–462.

Metapopulation theory

Hanski, I. (1994). A practical model of metapopulation dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology, 63(1), 151–162. [Incidence Function Model — mathematical relationship between ekokrati.graph's dispersal kernel and metapopulation occupancy probability.]

Hanski, I. (1999). Metapopulation Ecology. Oxford University Press.

Dispersal kernels

Nathan, R. et al. (2012). Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23(11), 638–647.

Tufto, J., Engen, S. & Hindar, K. (1997). Stochastic dispersal processes in plant populations. Theoretical Population Biology, 52(1), 16–26.

Connectivity in conservation and EIA

Bodin, Ö. & Saura, S. (2010). Ranking individual habitat patches as connectivity providers: integrating network analysis and patch removal experiments. Ecological Modelling, 221(19), 2393–2405.

Pascual-Hortal, L. & Saura, S. (2008). Integrating landscape connectivity in broad-scale forest planning through a new graph-based habitat availability methodology: application to capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) in Catalonia (NE Spain). European Journal of Forest Research, 127(1), 23–31.

Saura, S., Estreguil, C., Mouton, C. & Rodríguez-Freire, M. (2011). Network analysis to assess landscape connectivity trends: application to European forests (1990–2000). Ecological Indicators, 11(2), 407–416.