Paper presented during PhilGEOS x GeoAdvances 2019, 14\u201315 November 2019, Manila, Philippines <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\nIn biodiversity conservation, ecological corridors are assumed to increase landscape-level connectivity and to enhance the viability\nof otherwise isolated wildlife populations. Mapping these corridors serves as a feasible method to support forest management efforts\nin pinpointing areas to give special attention to. Here, we assess the current forest presence in the 3,000 hectare Mt. Lantoy, Key\nBiodiversity Area in Argao, Cebu and present potential forest corridors that could enhance the canopy cover of the current protected\narea. We present a method to map the potential corridors through the identification of the forest patches obtained from the global\nforest cover dataset and the creation of a species distribution model for the black shama, an endemic bird species in Cebu island and\na great biodiversity indicator for the area. Our ecological corridors were acquired through the sum of the cost distance rasters\nobtained from the weighted overlay and cost surface tools of the black shama habitat suitability model. With the obtained corridors\nfrom the study, four potential forest corridors\/ extensions were identified connecting five different forest patches. These corridors\nhave areas that range from 0.47 \u2013 2.17 square kilometers, with a potential to increase the forest cover in the KBA to more than 33%\nafter corridor modelling.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paper presented during PhilGEOS x GeoAdvances 2019, 14\u201315 November 2019, Manila, Philippines Abstract In biodiversity conservation, ecological corridors are assumed to increase landscape-level connectivity and to enhance the viability of otherwise isolated wildlife populations. Mapping these corridors serves as a feasible method to support forest management efforts in pinpointing areas to give special attention to. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-disseminations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}