naa a22 4500 51076262X CHVBK 20180411083145.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11355-012-0194-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11355-012-0194-3 Planning an ecological network using the predicted movement paths of urban birds [Elektronische Daten] [Suk-Hwan Hong, Bong-Ho Han, Song-Hyun Choi, Chan Sung, Kyong-Jae Lee] In this study, we propose a new method for planning ecological networks in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, Korea. The basic idea of this method is that, in urban areas where the price of land is high, it is most cost-effective to protect linear green areas that act as ecological corridors for potential movement paths (PMPs) of wild animals. PMPs were identified by a path-finding algorithm (PFA) that selected the optimum routes with minimum travel costs between pairs of locations where individuals of the indicator species—great tits (Parus major)—were found during field surveys. The PFA created an imaginary line segment network that connects nodes separated by 30m across the entire study area, and estimated the total travel cost of a route from one P. major location to another by summing the travel costs associated with all of the segments comprising that route. We assumed that the travel cost of each segment is the average of the inverses of the bird densities at the two end nodes. For each node, the bird density was estimated from the linear relationship between percentage vegetation cover and bird density, as observed during field surveys. The predicted PMPs showed a pattern that was highly concentrated on patches with relatively high vegetation cover. The preference of P. major for a few specific routes allowed us to easily identify ecological corridors in the study area. An ecological network plan that protects and/or restores areas along ecological corridors would greatly improve the ecological connectivity of fragmented habitats in highly urbanized areas. International Consortium of Landscape and Ecological Engineering and Springer, 2012 Ecological corridor nationallicence Network analysis nationallicence Parus major nationallicence Great tit nationallicence Habitat fragmentation nationallicence Urban ecology nationallicence Hong Suk-Hwan Department of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National University, 627-706, Miryang, Kyongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea aut Han Bong-Ho Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Seoul, 130-743, Seoul, Republic of Korea aut Choi Song-Hyun Department of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National University, 627-706, Miryang, Kyongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea aut Sung Chan Department of Environmental Planning, Keimyung University, 705-701, Daegu, Republic of Korea aut Lee Kyong-Jae Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Seoul, 130-743, Seoul, Republic of Korea aut Landscape and Ecological Engineering Springer Japan 9/1(2013-01-01), 165-174 1860-1871 9:1<165 2013 9 11355 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11355-012-0194-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11355-012-0194-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hong Suk-Hwan Department of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National University, 627-706, Miryang, Kyongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Han Bong-Ho Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Seoul, 130-743, Seoul, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Choi Song-Hyun Department of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National University, 627-706, Miryang, Kyongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sung Chan Department of Environmental Planning, Keimyung University, 705-701, Daegu, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Kyong-Jae Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Seoul, 130-743, Seoul, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Landscape and Ecological Engineering Springer Japan 9/1(2013-01-01), 165-174 1860-1871 9:1<165 2013 9 11355 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer