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Functional connectivity

Landscape structure

The degree to which landscape structure actually facilitates or impedes movement by a particular organism, taking account of the organism's behavior, movement capacity, habitat relationships, and response to intervening landscape conditions. Functional connectivity can therefore exist between spatially separated elements and should not be inferred from physical adjacency alone.

Taylor, P. D., Fahrig, L., Henein, K., & Merriam, G. (1993). Connectivity is a vital element of landscape structure. Oikos, 68(3), 571–573. Tischendorf, L., & Fahrig, L. (2000). On the usage and measurement of landscape connectivity. Oikos, 90(1), 7–19.