| Grassland | Landscape quality drives ecological responses to habitat loss and fragmentation | 2026 | Nature Ecology & Evolution | Landscape quality drives ecological responses to habitat loss and fragmentation |
| Grassland | Habitat fragmentation affects plant–arthropod interactions through connectivity loss and edge effects | 2026 | Ecology | Connectivity and habitat edges affect multiple plant-arthropod interactions |
| Wetland, Freshwater, Grassland, Forest | Regional Landscape Conservation Planning: Wildlife, Connectivity, and the Florida Model | 2026 | NA | New book released on regional landscape conservation planning |
| Grassland, Wetland, Forest, Ocean, Mountain, Freshwater | Species range shifts often speed ahead of their modeled climatic niches | 2026 | PNAS | Climate models often miss the pace of range shifts |
| Forest, Grassland | Roads shape seed dispersal by rodents and carnivores at forest edges | 2025 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Roads influence seed dispersal and forest connectivity |
| Grassland | Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers | 2025 | Biological Conservation | Do pinch points in corridors matter for insect biodiversity? |
| Grassland | Testing whether connectivity stabilizes metacommunities and rescues declining diversity in a 25-y grassland study | 2025 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | https://conservationcorridor.org/digests/2025/12/testing-whether-connectivity-stabilizes-metacommunities/ |
| Forest, Grassland | The benefits of inclusive conservation for connectivity of lions across the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania | 2025 | Conservation Science and Practice | Inclusive conservation can benefit wildlife connectivity |
| Grassland | Predicting the impact of targeted fence removal on connectivity in a migratory ecosystem | 2025 | Ecological Applications | Fence removal improves connectivity for migratory wildebeests |
| Grassland | Isolating the role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales | 2025 | Journal of Animal Ecology | The role of the matrix at patch and landscape scales |
| Grassland | Habitat specialization and edge effects of soil microbial communities in a fragmented landscape | 2025 | Ecology | Habitat fragmentation and edges matter for soil microorganisms |
| Forest, Grassland, Mountain, Urban, Agriculture | Connectivity and climate influence diversity–stability relationships across spatial scales in European butterfly metacommunities | 2024 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | Connectivity and climate affect diversity-stability relationships |
| Grassland | Road mitigation structures designed for Texas ocelots: Influence of structural characteristics and environmental factors on non-target wildlife usage | 2024 | PLoS ONE | Road mitigation structures: do they work for all species? |
| Grassland | Dispersing across habitat boundaries: Uncovering the demographic fates of populations in unsuitable habitat | 2024 | Ecosphere | How dangerous is dispersal across habitat boundaries? |
| Forest, Grassland | Plants maintain climate fidelity in the face of dynamic climate change | 2023 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Should I stay or should I go? Climate fidelity in plants over 18,000 years |
| Grassland | Ants disperse seeds farther in habitat patches with corridors | 2022 | Ecosphere | Ants disperse seeds farther in habitat patches with corridors |
| Grassland | Road verges are corridors and roads barriers for the movement of flower-visiting insects | 2022 | Ecography | Roads as barriers, road verges as corridors |
| Forest, Grassland | Developing a national indicator of functional connectivity | 2022 | Ecological Indicators | Using population synchrony to quantify functional connectivity |
| Grassland | Habitat fragmentation alters the distance of abiotic seed dispersal through edge effects and direction of dispersal | 2022 | Ecology | Habitat fragmentation changes the way seeds disperse |
| Forest, Grassland, Wetland, Urban | Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change | 2021 | Ecology Letters | Habitat fragmentation influences colonization and extinction under future climate conditions |
| Grassland | Connectivity and edge effects increase bee colonization in an experimentally fragmented landscape | 2021 | Ecography | Designing habitats for rapid colonization by wild bees |
| Grassland, Agriculture | Functional traits driving pollinator and predator responses to newly established grassland strips in agricultural landscapes | 2021 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Grassland and flower strips as corridors in agricultural landscapes/a> |
| Agriculture, Grassland | Quantifying trade-offs between butterfly abundance and movement in the management of agricultural set-aside strips | 2021 | Insect Conservation and Diversity | Grassland and flower strips as corridors in agricultural landscapes |
| Forest, Grassland | Corridors as a tool for linking habitats–Shortcomings and perspectives for plant conservation | 2021 | Journal for Nature Conservation | Perspectives in plant connectivity |
| Forest, Grassland | The 2020 elephant die-off in Botswana | 2021 | PeerJ | Wildlife fencing and its contribution to Botswana’s elephant die-off |
| Forest, Grassland, Wetland | Predicting range shifts for critically endangered plants: Is habitat connectivity irrelevant or necessary? | 2021 | Biological Conservation | Connectivity as an integral part of predicting range shifts |
| Freshwater, Wetland, Grassland, Desert | Using landscape connectivity to predict human-wildlife conflict | 2020 | Biological Conservation | Using landscape connectivity to predict human-wildlife conflict |
| Grassland, Agriculture | Butterflies in corridors: quality matters for specialists | 2020 | Insect Conservation and Diversity | How do you build a corridor for invertebrates? |
| Grassland, Agriculture | The allometry of movement predicts the connectivity of communities | 2020 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Predicting community connectivity using body size |
| Forest, Grassland | Arthropod traits and assemblages differ between core patches, transient stepping-stones and landscape corridors | 2020 | Landscape Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | Accounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly | 2020 | Landscape Ecology | Accounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly |
| Agriculture, Grassland | Corridor width determines strength of edge influence on arthropods in conservation corridors | 2020 | Landscape Ecology | Wide conservation corridors lessen edge effects for some arthropods |
| Forest, Grassland | Habitat fragmentation reduces plant progeny quality: a global synthesis | 2019 | Ecology Letters | Habitat fragmentation and its consequences for plant progeny |
| Grassland, Forest | Bat overpasses: an insufficient solution to restore habitat connectivity across roads | 2019 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Bat overpasses: A potential solution to restore habitat connectivity across roads |
| Grassland | Ongoing accumulation of plant diversity through habitat connectivity in an 18-year experiment | 2019 | Science | Plant diversity benefits from corridors over long time scales |
| Grassland, Forest | Divergent fire management leads to multiple beneficial outcomes for butterfly conservation in a production mosaic | 2019 | Journal of Applied Ecology | How often should grassland corridors burn to maximize biodiversity? |
| Mountain, Grassland, Forest | Plasticity in elk migration timing is a response to changing environmental conditions | 2019 | Global Change Biology | Plasticity in elk migration timing is a response to changing environmental conditions |
| Forest, Grassland, Agriculture | Additive effects of connectivity provided by different habitat types drive plant assembly | 2019 | Scientific Reports | Plant assemblages are affected by connectivity and dispersal mode |
| Forest, Grassland, Agriculture | Optimizing the positioning of wildlife crossing structures using GPS telemetry | 2018 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Road ecology: recent research into getting wildlife over and under transportation barriers |
| Grassland | Prioritizing core areas, corridors and conflict hotspots for lion conservation in southern Africa | 2018 | PLoS ONE | Big cats and big connectivity |
| Forest, Grassland | Do wildlife corridors link or extend habitat? Insights from elephant use of a Kenyan wildlife corridor | 2018 | African Journal of Ecology | NA |
| Mountain, Forest, Desert, Grassland | Habitat suitability and connectivity for an endangered brown bear population in the Iranian Caucasus | 2018 | Wildlife Research | NA |
| Grassland | Connectivity increases trophic subsidies in fragmented landscapes | 2018 | Ecology Letters | NA |
| Mountain, Grassland, Desert | Road expansion: A challenge to conservation of mammals, with particular emphasis on the endangered Asiatic cheetah in Iran | 2018 | Journal for Nature Conservation | Road ecology: recent research into getting wildlife over and under transportation barriers |
| Desert, Forest, Grassland, Wetland | Nature divided, scientists united: US–Mexico border wall threatens biodiversity and binational conservation | 2018 | BioScience | Conservation and connectivity across the border wall |
| Grassland | Associations between plant and pollinator communities under grassland restoration respond mainly to landscape connectivity | 2018 | Journal of Applied Ecology | NA |
| Grassland, Urban | Influences on mammals frequency of use of small bridges and culverts along the Qinghai-Tibet railway, China | 2018 | Ecological Research | Road ecology: recent research into getting wildlife over and under transportation barriers |
| Forest, Grassland, Agriculture | Forecasting the combined effects of climate and land use change on Mexican bats | 2018 | Diversity and Distributions | The fate of bats under climate change and habitat fragmentation |
| Forest, Grassland | Does wildlife resource selection accurately inform corridor conservation? | 2017 | Journal of Applied Ecology | How much does animal behavior matter in corridor planning? |
| Grassland | Structural connectivity at a national scale: Wildlife corridors in Tanzania | 2017 | PLoS ONE | Combining high-tech modelling and low-tech local interviews to map wildlife corridors in Tanzania |
| Grassland | Habitat-based conservation strategies cannot compensate for climate-change-induced range loss | 2017 | Nature Climate Change | Habitat conservation alone cannot fully protect species from the effects of climate change |
| Freshwater, Agriculture, Desert, Mountain, Grassland | "Restoration economy" strives to protect pollinators, create jobs | 2016 | Scientific American | People both create and benefit from the ecosystem services corridors provide |
| Grassland | Should I stay or should I go? Climate change effects on the future of Neotropical savannah bats | 2016 | Global Ecology and Conservation | Protecting the path for bats through Brazil’s largest savannah |
| Mountain, Grassland | An individual-based modelling approach to estimate landscape connectivity for bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) | 2016 | PeerJ | NA |
| Mountain, Forest, Grassland | Connecting models to movements: testing connectivity model predicitons against empirical migration and dispersal data | 2016 | Landscape Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | Connectivity from a different perspective: comparing seed dispersal kernels in connected vs. unfragmented landscapes | 2016 | Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | Evaluating habitat connectivity methodologies: a case study with endangered African wild dogs in South Africa | 2016 | Landscape Ecology | NA |
| Desert, Grassland, Urban | All roads lead to Iran: Predicting landscape connectivity of the last stronghold for the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah | 2016 | Animal Conservation | NA |
| Grassland | Functional connectivity as an indicator for patch occupancy in grassland specialists | 2016 | Ecological Indicators | NA |
| Forest, Grassland, Wetland, Mountain | Predicting landscape connectivity for the Asian elephant in its largest remaining subpopulation | 2016 | Animal Conservation | NA |
| Agriculture, Grassland | Fire management strategies to maintain species population processes in a fragmented landscape of fire-interval extremes | 2016 | Ecological Applications | How often should a landscape burn? |
| Forest, Grassland, Urban, Agriculture | Using step and path selection functions for estimating resistance to movement: pumas as a case study | 2016 | Landscape Ecology | Best practices: What is the best approach to estimate resistance? |
| Grassland | The spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes | 2015 | Ambio | Forest network resilience under climate change and natural disturbance |
| Grassland | The influence of habitat fragmentation on multiple plant-animal interactions and plant reproduction | 2015 | Ecology | NA |
| Forest, Grassland | A stochastic movement simulator improves estimates of landscape connectivity | 2015 | Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | A multi-scale assessment of population connectivity in African lions (Panthera leo) in response to landscape change | 2015 | Landscape Ecology | Evaluating strategies for keeping African lions connected |
| Forest, Grassland | Structural habitat predicts functional dispersal habitat of a large carnivore: How leopards change spots | 2015 | Ecological Applications | NA |
| Grassland | Local and landscape management drive trait-mediated biodiversity of nine taxa on small grassland fragments | 2015 | Diversity and Distributions | Management recommendations for maintaining grassland biodiversity |
| Urban, Grassland | Urban power line corridors as novel habitats for grassland and alien plant species in south-western Finland | 2015 | PLoS ONE | Urban power lines act as corridors for both native and invasive plants |
| Forest, Agriculture, Grassland | Evaluating connectivity for tropical amphibians using empirically derived resistance surfaces | 2015 | Ecological Applications | NA |
| Mountain, Grassland | Moving beyond science to protect a mammalian migration corridor | 2014 | Conservation Biology | Moving beyond science to protect corridors |
| Forest, Grassland, Agriculture, Urban | A species-centered approach for uncovering generalities in organism responses to habitat loss and fragmentation | 2014 | Ecography | NA |
| Grassland | How fragmentation and corridors affect wind dynamics and seed dispersal in open habitats | 2014 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA | Wind dynamics in corridors |
| Forest, Grassland | The devil is in the dispersers: predictions of landscape connectivity change with demography | 2014 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Digests for Debate: Resistance is nonlinearly related to habitat suitability |
| Grassland | The matrix alters the role of path redundancy on patch colonization rates | 2014 | Ecology | Experimentally testing the role of connectivity redundancy on colonization rates |
| Grassland | Landscape corridors can increase invasion by an exotic species and reduce diversity of native species | 2014 | Ecology | When corridors spread invasive fire ants to the detriment of native ants (and when they don’t) |
| Grassland | Refining climate change projections for organisms with low dispersal abilities: a case study of the Caspian whip snake | 2014 | PLoS ONE | NA |
| Forest, Grassland, Urban, Agriculture | Sensitivity of landscape resistance stimates based on point selection functions to scale and behavioral state: pumas as a case study | 2014 | Landscape Ecology | Best practices: What is the best approach to estimate resistance? |
| Grassland, Agriculture | Grassland connectivity by motor vehicles and grazing livestock | 2013 | Ecography | Maintaining grassland connectivity via cars and cows |
| Grassland | Evaluating population connectivity for species of conservation concern in the American Great Plains | 2013 | Biodiversity and Conservation | Evaluating strategies for keeping African lions connected |
| Grassland | Landscape corridors promote long-distance seed-dispersal by birds during winter but not during summer at an experimentally fragmented restoration site | 2013 | Ecological Restoration | NA |
| Forest, Grassland, Agriculture, Urban, Freshwater | Determinants of extinction-colonization dynamics in Mediterranean butterflies: the role of landscape, climate and local habitat features | 2013 | Journal of Animal Ecology | How do habitat, landscape and climate affect population dynamics across different species? |
| Grassland | Local and landscape management of an expanding range margin under climate change | 2012 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Management of range expansion |
| Forest, Grassland, Wetland | Habitat re-creation strategies for promoting adaptation of species to climate change | 2011 | Conservation Letters | Corridors and Climate Change |
| Forest, Grassland | Measuring functional connectivity using long-term monitoring data | 2011 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | Measuring functional connectivity with long-term data |
| Forest, Grassland | A landscape-based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population | 2011 | Conservation Letters | NA |
| Grassland | The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes | 2008 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA | NA |
| Grassland | Corridors increase plant species richness at large scales | 2006 | Science | NA |
| Grassland | The effects of patch shape on Indigo Buntings: evidence for an ecological trap | 2005 | Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | Corridor use by diverse taxa | 2003 | Ecology | NA |
| Grassland, Forest | Spatial ecology of predator–prey interactions: corridors and patch shape influence seed predation | 2003 | Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | Finding habitat patches and directional connectivity | 2003 | Oikos | Incorporate natural history and behavior to conserve biodiversity on farms |
| Grassland | Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes | 2002 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA | NA |
| Grassland | Effects of grassland fragmentation on insect species loss, colonization and movement patterns | 2000 | Ecology | NA |
| Grassland | Corridor and distance effects on interpatch movements: a landscape experiment with butterflies | 1999 | Ecological Applications | NA |
| Grassland | Effects of corridor width and presence on the population dynamics of the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) | 1993 | Landscape Ecology | NA |
