Modeling Landscape Permeability
Subject Tags
- Climate resilience
- Climate adaptation
Abstract
Landscape permeability is a multidimensional characteristic. As part of The Nature Conservancy’s Terrestrial Resilience project, we developed two separate analytical models to assess different aspects of its local and regional nature. The first, local connectedness started with a focal cell and looked at the resistance to flows outward in all directions through the cell’s local neighborhood. The second, regional flow patterns, looked at broad east-west and north-south flow patterns across the entire region and measures how flow patterns become slowed, redirected, or channeled into concentration areas, due to the spatial arrangements of cities, towns, farms, roads, and natural land.
Citation
Anderson, M., & Clark, M. (2012). Modeling landscape permeability: A description of two methods to model landscape permeability. The Nature Conservancy, Eastern Conservation Science.
TNC Authors
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Mark G. Anderson
Former Director of the Center for Resilient Conservation Science (retired)
The Nature Conservancy -
Melissa Clark
Director of the Center for Resilient Conservation Science
The Nature Conservancy
Email: melissa_clark@tnc.org