<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amici, Valerio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geri, Francesco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Battisti, Corrado</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">An integrated method to create habitat suitability models for fragmented landscapes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal for Nature Conservation</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Connectivity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Focal species</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fuzzy set</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Habitat conservation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Landscape planning</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1617138109000740</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">215 - 223</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Given the pervasive inﬂuence of human induced habitat fragmentation in ecological processes, landscape models are a welcome advance. The development of GIS software has allowed a greater use of these models and of analyses of the relationship between species and habitat variables. Habitat suitability models are thus theoretical concepts that can be used for planning in fragmented landscapes and habitat conservation. The most commonly used models are based on single species and on the assignment of suitability values for some environmental variables. Generally the cartographic basis for modeling suitability are thematic maps produced by a Boolean logic. In this paper we propose a model based on a set of focal species and on maps produced by a fuzzy classiﬁcation method. Focal species, selected by an expert-based approach, provide a practical way of extending the scope of habitat suitability models to the conservation of biodiversity at landscape scale. The utilisation of a classiﬁcation method that applies a continuity criterion may allow more consideration of the connectivity of an area because it allows a better detection of ecological gradients within a landscape. We applied this methodology to the Tuscany region focusing on terrestrial mammals. Performing a fuzzy classiﬁcation we produced ﬁve land cover maps and through image processing operations we obtained a suitability model which applies a continuity criterion. The resulting suitability fuzzy model seems better for the study of connectivity and fragmentation, especially in areas with high spatial complexity</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Elsevier</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Area effect on bird communities, guilds and species in a highly fragmented forest landscape of central Italy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Italian Journal of Zoology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Taylor &amp; Francis</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">72</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">297-304</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abstract Breeding bird communities in an ?archipelago? of 16 wood fragments (13 oak deciduous woods, 1 holm wood, and 2 anthropogenic pinewoods) in a littoral plain of Central Italy were studied. Species richness and diversity index resulted directly and significantly correlated to fragment area. Species richness tended to cumulate in fragments over 100?ha area size. The log?transformed species/area relationship showed a coefficient z = 0.21, inside the range known for ecological islands. Z coefficient increased (0.23) excluding one guild of field?edge and anthropophilous species. Cluster analysis showed a separation among fragments based on their area size. Although species richness in pinewood plantations corresponded to the expected one from species/area relationship, cluster analysis highlighted disaffinity with bird communities of larger woods of oaks. These anthropogenic woods could not be surrogate habitats for many forest species in fragmented landscapes. Richness and abundance of field?edge and anthropophilous species resulted inversely correlated to fragment area. The opposite trend was observed for forest sensu latu species. Correlation coefficient increased considering only deciduous oak fragments. Some forest generalist species showed an abundance directly correlated to fragment size area (Troglodytes troglodytes, Erithacus rubecula, Fringilla coelebs); other species (Streptopelia turtur, Upupa epops, Jynx torquilla, Picoides major, Sitta europaed) were absent in fragment smaller than 10 ha. These species could constitute a set of area?sensitive taxa for planning strategy in highly fragmented landscapes, although, selection of these targets appears strongly context?limited.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">doi: 10.1080/11250000509356689</style></notes><research-notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">doi: 10.1080/11250000509356689</style></research-notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Frank, Beatrice</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Battisti, Corrado</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Area effect on bird communities, guilds and species in a highly fragmented forest landscape of central Italy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Italian Journal of Zoology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Area size effect</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Area-sensitivity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Habitat fragmentation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Island biogeography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">isolation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Target species</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Threshold values</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2005///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356689</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">72</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">297 - 304</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abstract Breeding bird communities in an ?archipelago? of 16 wood fragments (13 oak deciduous woods, 1 holm wood, and 2 anthropogenic pinewoods) in a littoral plain of Central Italy were studied. Species richness and diversity index resulted directly and significantly correlated to fragment area. Species richness tended to cumulate in fragments over 100?ha area size. The log?transformed species/area relationship showed a coefficient z = 0.21, inside the range known for ecological islands. Z coefficient increased (0.23) excluding one guild of field?edge and anthropophilous species. Cluster analysis showed a separation among fragments based on their area size. Although species richness in pinewood plantations corresponded to the expected one from species/area relationship, cluster analysis highlighted disaffinity with bird communities of larger woods of oaks. These anthropogenic woods could not be surrogate habitats for many forest species in fragmented landscapes. Richness and abundance of field?edge and anthropophilous species resulted inversely correlated to fragment area. The opposite trend was observed for forest sensu latu species. Correlation coefficient increased considering only deciduous oak fragments. Some forest generalist species showed an abundance directly correlated to fragment size area (Troglodytes troglodytes, Erithacus rubecula, Fringilla coelebs); other species (Streptopelia turtur, Upupa epops, Jynx torquilla, Picoides major, Sitta europaed) were absent in fragment smaller than 10 ha. These species could constitute a set of area?sensitive taxa for planning strategy in highly fragmented landscapes, although, selection of these targets appears strongly context?limited.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">doi: 10.1080/11250000509356689doi: 10.1080/11250000509356689The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Taylor &amp; Francis</style></notes></record></records></xml>