A Landscape Ecology Approach for the Study of Ecological Connectivity Across Tropical Marine Seascapes

摘要: Connectivity across the seascape is expected to have profound consequences for behavior, growth, survival, and spatial distribution of marine species. A landscape ecology approach offers great utility studying ecological connectivity in tropical seascapes. Landscape provides a well developed conceptual operational framework addressing complex multi-scale questions regarding influence patterning on processes. can provide quantitative spatially explicit information at scales relevant resource management decision making. It will allow us begin asking key such as ‘how much habitat protect?’, ‘What type ‘Which patterns optimal, suboptimal, or dysfunctional mobile organisms?’. While increasingly being applied seascapes, few studies dealt explicitly with issue connectivity. Herein, we examine application better understand ecosystems by: (1) reviewing concepts, (2) discussing methods tools available evaluating connectivity, (3) examining data needs obstacles, (4) lessons learned from terrestrial coral reef studies, (5) implications management. Several recent conducted demonstrate powerful approaches improving our understanding applying results make more informed decisions conservation planning.