​Landscape Connectivity

Landscape connectivity is the measure of the ability of animals to move between discrete habitat patches. It refers to the degree to which the landscape promotes or hinders the movement of organisms or some ecological process between source patches, which reflects the functional characteristics of the landscape. This concept emphasizes the use of animal population and their spatial behavior to examine landscape connectivity （Taylor et al, 1993）。 This view provides the concept and measurement of network originally proposed by landscape ecology a foothold. Combined with the research of animal mobile network, more variables can be obtained by tracking animal trajectories, it pushes forward the development of the research on landscape functional connectivity.

Edited and translated by Zhang Yifei