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Conservation effectiveness frequently depends on knowledge about multiscale factors that affect organism distributions, and about environmental conditions that enable organisms to move across landscapes. Such information is valuable for accomplishing conservation objectives as diverse as maintaining natural distributions and dispersal processes, ensuring genetic diversity, establishing corridors and networks, and controlling invasion by non-native species. Section II addresses these interrelated topics.
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Gutzwiller, K.J. (2002). Spatial Factors Affecting Organism Occurrence, Movement, and Conservation: Introduction to Section II. In: Gutzwiller, K.J. (eds) Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0059-5_4
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