3.5 Landscape Connectivity across four levels of dispersal abilities:
For both species, the percentage of the landscape, correlation length and largest patch index of connected habitat was predicted to increase significantly, and the number of patches was predicted to decrease, with increasing dispersal ability (Table4). Across the four dispersal thresholds and different models, we predict that between 17 and 30 % of the landscape contains connected habitat patches for gray wolf. For golden jackal, 13 to 29 % of the landscape contains connected habitat patches. We predicted that isolated patches for grey wolf and golden jackal ranged between 4-35 and 9-49 respectively across dispersal thresholds and modeling methods (Table4).
Table 4: FRAGSTATS results for four metrics includes: number of individual core patches (NP) largest patch index (LPI), percentage of landscape in connected habitat (PLAND) and correlation length of core habitats (CL). For grey wolf and golden jackal in four levels of dispersal ability (50,000, 100,000, 150,000 and 200000). The core habitats were defined as contiguous units with resistant kernel values >10% of the highest resistance kernel for the species.