Wildlife corridors

Corredores
 QUE ES UN CORREDOR?

1) Elementos del paisaje con forma alargada (e.g.,

Perímetro/Área > 2 radio) o conjunto de elementos
ordenados de manera lineal sobre el paisaje.

2) Elementos del paisaje que facilitan o promueven el

movimiento de los individuos, conectando
“estructuralmente” y “funcionalmente” a los
fragmentos de hábitat y/o poblaciones locales
CONNECTIVITY

Patch 2
p1,2

Patch 1
 Patch 4
p1,4= p1,2 × p2,3 × p3,4

Patch 3

Patch 1

Patch 2
DESFORESTACIÓN
Santiago
Conectividad
Valle central (regional corridor)
Large-scale Corridors (continental)
 Tipos de elementos del paisaje que califican como “corredores”

Corridor type Scale Organisms

Riparian networks Landscape Riparian dispersing species
Edge-rows Landscape Forest-agricultural biodiversity
Unpaved roads Landscape Forest-agricultural biodiversity

Stream networks Landscape Aquatic species (fishes, shrimp)

Greenways Landscape Urban/peri-urban biodiversity
Wildlife overpasses Landscape Sensitive to roads (barriers)
Mountain chains Landscape / Regional High mountain biodiversity
Conservation Area Regional / continental Regional biodiversity / large
Corridors animal (carnivores, ungulates)
Trans-oceanic corridor Continental / global Marine wildlife
Migratory corridors Regional / continental /global Migratory species
Paisaje agro-forestal (riparian strips)
Paisaje agro-forestal
Paisaje agro-forestal (fencerows)
 MOVEMENT CORRIDORS

Guiding edge:

Movement conduit:

Drift fence:
 MATRIX VS. CORRIDOR

10

Number of captured birds

8 Corridor

Matrix
6

0
0 100 200 300 400 500

Distance (m)
Hard matrix (open pasture)

Soft matrix (forest plantation)

 MATRIX RESISTANCE

Vergara . 2010. Matrix-dependent corridor effectiveness and the abundance of forest birds in fragmented landscapes.
Landscape Ecology. 26:1085-1096
Vergara . 2010. Matrix-dependent corridor effectiveness and the abundance of forest birds in fragmented landscapes.
Landscape Ecology. 26:1085-1096
MATRIX IMPORTANCE: understory birds

Castellon & Sieving. 2006. An experimental test of matrix permeability and corridor use by anendemic understory bird.
Conserv Biol 20:135–145
Matrix resistance
LEAST-COST PATH

pA,B = F(cost distance)

LaRue and Nielsen. 2008. Modelling potential dispersal corridors for cougars in midwestern North American using least-cost
path methods. Ecological Modelling 212: 372-381.
Brownian bridge movement models (BBMMs)
Seidler, R. G., Long, R. A., Berger, J., Bergen, S., & Beckmann, J. P. (2014). Identifying Impediments to Long-Distance Mammal
Migrations.. Conservation Biology 29, 99–109
Hummingbird pollination routes in
fragmented landscapes

Kormann, U., C. Scherber, T. Tschamtke, N Klein, M.

Larbig, J. J. Valente, A. S. Hadley, and M. G. Betts.
2016. Corridors restore animal-mediated
pollination in fragmented tropical forest landscapes.
Proc. R. Soc. B 283: 20152347.
Gillies & St. Clair. 2008. Riparian corridors enhance movement of a forest
specialist bird in fragmented tropical forest. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.
105:19774–19779.
Experimental Corridors

Testing corridor use

Levey et al. 2005. Effects of Landscape Corridors on Seed Dispersal by Birds Science 310:779-783.
Haddad et al. 2014.
Potential negative
ecological effects of
corridors. Conservation
Biology 28(5): 1178-1187