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The spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Impact of historical land use change on the brown bear habitat connectivity in the Polish Carpathians.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Isolation controls reestablishment mechanisms and post-drying community structure in an intermittent stream.Ecology · 2023Article
- Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Gene flow in a pioneer plant metapopulation (Myricaria germanica) at the catchment scale in a fragmented alpine river system.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- The effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on plant functional traits and functional diversity: what do we know so far?Oecologia · 2019Review
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- BIOTA CONNECT AQUATIC HABITATS THROUGHOUT FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM MOSAICS.Journal of the American Water Resources Association · 2018Article
- Large-scale ecological networks do work in an ecologically complex biodiversity hotspot.Ambio · 2016Article
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Abstract
Connectivity is key for understanding how ecological systems respond to the challenges of land-use change and habitat fragmentation. Structural and functional connectivity are both established concepts in ecology, but the temporal component of connectivity deserves more attention. Whereas functional connectivity is often associated with spatial patterns (spatial functional connectivity), temporal functional connectivity relates to the persistence of organisms in time, in the same place. Both temporal and spatial processes determine biodiversity responses to changes in landscape structure, and it is therefore necessary that all aspects of connectivity are considered together. In this perspective, we use a case study to outline why we believe that both the spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity are important for understanding biodiversity patterns in the present-day landscape, and how they can also help us to make better-informed decisions about conserving and restoring landscapes and improving resilience to future change.
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