Connectivity Conservation of Large Carnivores' Habitats in the Carpathians
The Carpathian Mountains forming an arc roughly 1.500 km across seven states provide the habitat for some of the largest European populations of brown bears, grey wolves and Eurasian lynx, with the highest concentration in Romania. However, Ukrainian, Romanian and even Slovakian parts of Carpathians...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/62172 2023-05-15T18:50:29+02:00 Connectivity Conservation of Large Carnivores' Habitats in the Carpathians Romportl, Dušan Zyka, Vladimír Kutal, Miroslav 2018 text/html fulltext https://doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107837 http://urn.fi/ eng eng Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä https://peerageofscience.org/conference/eccb2018/107837/ ECCB2018: 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. 12th - 15th of June 2018, Jyväskylä, Finland Romportl, D., Zyka, V. and Kutal, M. (2018). Connectivity Conservation of Large Carnivores' Habitats in the Carpathians. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. doi:10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107837 doi:10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107837 http://urn.fi/ CC BY 4.0 © the Authors, 2018 openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferenceItem conference paper not in proceedings publishedVersion conferenceObject 2018 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107837 2021-09-23T20:27:55Z The Carpathian Mountains forming an arc roughly 1.500 km across seven states provide the habitat for some of the largest European populations of brown bears, grey wolves and Eurasian lynx, with the highest concentration in Romania. However, Ukrainian, Romanian and even Slovakian parts of Carpathians suffer from the lack of the functional nature protection and the effective landscape management. Several protected areas including the large number of NATURA 2000 sites have been declared, but their spatial design recalls rather patchwork instead of coherent network. Populations of large carnivores with enormous spatial requirements and extensive dispersal and migratory needs are widely endangered by rapid development of roads and motorways creating long impermeable barriers across the Carpathians. As new traffic projects are planned on supra-national level, the same scale is needed for designing an extensive system of wildlife corridors. Habitat suitability models for brown bear, grey wolf and Eurasian lynx were used to delineate core habitat areas and stepping stones important for dispersal. The Circuit Theory was applied for assessment of landscape connectivity and finally a coherent network of wildlife corridors was designed. Proposal of such green infrastructure is going to be presented to regional authorities and stakeholders, to provide them with relevant information for negotiations with road and motorways planners. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Lynx Stepping Stones JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Stepping Stones ENVELOPE(-63.992,-63.992,-64.786,-64.786) Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology |
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The Carpathian Mountains forming an arc roughly 1.500 km across seven states provide the habitat for some of the largest European populations of brown bears, grey wolves and Eurasian lynx, with the highest concentration in Romania. However, Ukrainian, Romanian and even Slovakian parts of Carpathians suffer from the lack of the functional nature protection and the effective landscape management. Several protected areas including the large number of NATURA 2000 sites have been declared, but their spatial design recalls rather patchwork instead of coherent network. Populations of large carnivores with enormous spatial requirements and extensive dispersal and migratory needs are widely endangered by rapid development of roads and motorways creating long impermeable barriers across the Carpathians. As new traffic projects are planned on supra-national level, the same scale is needed for designing an extensive system of wildlife corridors. Habitat suitability models for brown bear, grey wolf and Eurasian lynx were used to delineate core habitat areas and stepping stones important for dispersal. The Circuit Theory was applied for assessment of landscape connectivity and finally a coherent network of wildlife corridors was designed. Proposal of such green infrastructure is going to be presented to regional authorities and stakeholders, to provide them with relevant information for negotiations with road and motorways planners. peerReviewed |
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Connectivity Conservation of Large Carnivores' Habitats in the Carpathians |
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Connectivity Conservation of Large Carnivores' Habitats in the Carpathians |
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Connectivity Conservation of Large Carnivores' Habitats in the Carpathians |
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