Habitat linkages and highway mitigation using spatially-explicit GIS-based models

• Main Author: Jones, Andrew Charles
• Other Authors: Wilmshurst, John, Boydell, Tony, Noble, Michael-Anne
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Circuit Theory; Grizzly Bear; highway mitigations; Least-cost Path Anaylsis; Resource Selection Functions; wildlife corridors; Cross Valley; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10170/529

I identified suitable locations for highway wildlife crossing mitigations across the TransCanada Highway (TCH) in the area of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Park (MRGNP), British Columbia. Highways fragment natural landscapes leading to habitat loss, reduced ecosystem connectivity and direct...