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MetaConnect, a new platform for population viability modelling to assist decision makers in conservation and urban planning

View ORCID ProfileSylvain Moulherat, View ORCID ProfileElvire Bestion, View ORCID ProfileMichel Baguette, Matthieu Moulherat, Stephen C.F. Palmer, Justin M.J. Travis, View ORCID ProfileJean Clobert
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.30.890921
Sylvain Moulherat
aSEEM-CNRS, 2 route du CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France
bTerrOïko, 2 rue Clémence Isaure, 31250 Revel, France
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Elvire Bestion
aSEEM-CNRS, 2 route du CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France
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Michel Baguette
aSEEM-CNRS, 2 route du CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France
cMuseum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7205 Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité, F-75005 Paris, France
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Matthieu Moulherat
bTerrOïko, 2 rue Clémence Isaure, 31250 Revel, France
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Stephen C.F. Palmer
dInstitute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen Zoology Building. Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK
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Justin M.J. Travis
dInstitute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen Zoology Building. Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK
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Jean Clobert
aSEEM-CNRS, 2 route du CNRS, 09200 Moulis, France
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Abstract

In a context of global change, scientists and policy-makers require tools to address the issue of biodiversity loss. Population viability analysis (PVA) has been the main tool to deal with this problem. However, the tools developed during the 90s poorly integrate recent scientific advances in landscape genetics and dispersal. We developed a flexible and modular modelling platform for PVA that addresses many of the limitations of existing software. MetaConnect is an individual-based, process-based and PVA-oriented modelling platform which could be used as a research or a decision-making tool. Here, we present the core base modelling of MetaConnect. We demonstrate its potential use through a case study illustrating the platform’s capability for performing integrated PVA including extinction probability estimation, genetic differentiation and landscape connectivity analysis. We used MetaConnect to assess the impact of infrastructure works on the natterjack toad metapopulation functioning.

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MetaConnect, a new platform for population viability modelling to assist decision makers in conservation and urban planning
Sylvain Moulherat, Elvire Bestion, Michel Baguette, Matthieu Moulherat, Stephen C.F. Palmer, Justin M.J. Travis, Jean Clobert
bioRxiv 2019.12.30.890921; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.30.890921
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MetaConnect, a new platform for population viability modelling to assist decision makers in conservation and urban planning
Sylvain Moulherat, Elvire Bestion, Michel Baguette, Matthieu Moulherat, Stephen C.F. Palmer, Justin M.J. Travis, Jean Clobert
bioRxiv 2019.12.30.890921; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.30.890921

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