Landscape connectivity in and around Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park: an analysis based on wildlife movement
atmire.migration.oldid | 2629 | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Quinn, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Islam, Mohammed Shariful | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-30T21:06:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-17T08:00:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-09-30 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Landscape connectivity is the degree to which landscapes are connected among resource patches. Resource patches provide core habitat for wildlife. Considering that connectivity is essential to survival of wildlife, the aim of this research was to model landscape connectivity for wildlife movement over a regional landscape. Functional connectivity was computed for assessing corridors and linkage zones of wildlife movement. Human footprint data was used to compute graph theoretic betweenness centrality for shortest path, current flow and network flow methods. As a result, shortest paths identified a set of geodesic paths; current flow identified a number of movement zones; and network flow identified linkage zones with and without considering costs in the network. The model output was validated with camera-captured and road-killed wildlife data and found strong correspondence. The author concluded by analyzing comparison of the approaches and recommending suitable planning and management options for the study park and the landscape. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Islam, M. S. (2014). Landscape connectivity in and around Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park: an analysis based on wildlife movement (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26720 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/26720 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1884 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher.faculty | Environmental Design | |
dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
dc.subject | Urban and Regional Planning | |
dc.subject.classification | Landscape Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Spatial modeling | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Landscape connectivity | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Wildlife modeling | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | GIS | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Graph theory | en_US |
dc.title | Landscape connectivity in and around Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park: an analysis based on wildlife movement | |
dc.type | master thesis | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Environmental Design (MEDes) | |
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