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Mule Deer least-cost corridors for NSNF Connectivity - CDFW [ds1015]

Metadata Updated: March 30, 2024

The northern Sierra Nevada foothills wildlife connectivity project modeled wildlife corridors for 9 focal species between 238 landscape blocks within the northern Sierra Nevada foothills and neighboring ecoregions. We followed the least-cost corridor techniques described by Beier et al. (2007). This analysis identified the least-cost corridor, or the best potential route for each species, between neighboring landscape blocks. The data needed for a least-cost corridor analysis are a resistance raster and landscape blocks. The resistance raster is the inverse of the species distribution model (SDM) output (i.e., Maxent or BioView habitat models, which rank habitat suitability across the landscape from 0-100 for each species). We identified habitat patches for each focal species within each landscape block, and connected those habitat patches using the least-cost corridor models. The least-cost corridor model does not identify barriers, risk and dispersal. We removed urban areas and areas of unsuitable/non-restorable habitat from the corridors and then inspected the corridor to make sure they were continuous. We examined the amount of predicted suitable habitat in each corridor, and measured the distance between habitat patches within each corridor to make sure it was within the maximum dispersal distance for that focal species. If the corridors did not meet these rules then habitat patches on the border of the corridor were added to meet the selection requirements. For more information see the project report at [https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=85358].

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Metadata Created Date September 15, 2023
Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024

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Harvested from State of California

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 15, 2023
Metadata Updated Date March 30, 2024
Publisher California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Maintainer
Identifier 716cf44a-d964-49ea-aba4-8ae6fdd06890
Data First Published 2020-01-31T17:45:45.000Z
Data Last Modified 2020-01-31T17:46:04.477Z
Category Natural Resources, Water
Public Access Level public
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Harvest Source Title State of California
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Source Hash 03cc6c362cbcb74ef0c6c4e9fab35d8f50a7c995741c9b37b698fa4bb19199e7
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