Dear colleague,
To help managers and scientists produce actionable connectivity plans, we are starting a systematic review of connectivity conservation plans. Would you help us? To help, please:
By connectivity conservation plan, we mean:
a document that was written to guide land use decisions, acquisition of conservation lands, construction of highway crossing structures, and other management actions to conserve or improve animal movement, gene flow, or other types of ecological connectivity. The Connectivity Conservation Plan does not need to be a peer reviewed paper (indeed most will not be); it can address one connection between a particular pair of protected areas, or many connections within a region; it can aim to conserve corridors, steppingstones, or a permeable matrix; its design can be driven by one species, many species, naturalness, or other criteria; it can be written in any language.
What will we do with the plan(s) you send us? After we extract information from the plans, we will send a questionnaire to the authors and users of the plan, asking how the plan has guided land acquisitions, land use plans, transportation plans, new highway crossing structures, or other conservation actions. Please email or call if you want more information.
Thank you.
Annika Keeley, University of California at Berkeley, 1-530-220-4324
Paul Beier, Northern Arizona University, 1-928-523-9341, skype paul.beier
Gary Tabor, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, 1-406-586-8082