Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Forestalling biodiversity loss through the establishment of protected areas is a universally accepted conservation strategy, yet despite established guidelines for protected area coverage and placement, much of the world is currently failing to meet its commitments to conservation planning and landscape protection. Calls for the United States to protect more land usually focus on the… more Full Text: ASSESSING CONNECTIVITY OF PROTECTED AREA NETWORKS AND THE ROLE OF PRIVATE LANDS IN THE UNITED STATES A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of …