
those that do not clearly alter landscape characteristics) can significantly limit dispersal and population persistence. This business was incorporated 44 years ago on 24th January 1977. The company has corporate status: Active. Our results do illustrate how less-visible human disturbances (i.e. MONIT MANAGEMENT LTD., also known as LES GESTIONS MONIT LTEE, is a company from Montreal QC Canada. Stochastic disturbance further reduced mean population size. Our results did not indicate the presence of additive effects, and scenarios incorporating all three features had similar results as that of roads. Increasing deflection from park boundaries did not appear to have significant impacts. Proceedings of the Symposium for the 20th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol Christos.

Simulations that separately accounted for negative human attitudes and roads outside the park boundaries exhibited lower mean population size than those that ignored these details. We simulated dispersal using HexSim, a spatially explicit individualbased population model, parameterised with data on wolves (Canis lupus) in the RMNP region. Finally, we assessed whether the simultaneous occurrence of the three features had additive effects. We examined whether stochastic disturbance, representing infectious disease epidemics, further reduced long-term population persistence for various scenarios. We examined how park boundaries, roads outside park boundaries and negative human attitudes have altered dispersal success and population persistence. Agricultural development over the past 60 years has resulted in considerable habitat fragmentation in the Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP) region in southwestern Manitoba, Canada.


The extent to which landscape resistance can influence population persistence is not well understood. Here, we use the term “landscape resistance” to capture constraints to dispersal that cannot be linked directly to fragmentation. In addition, some forms of human disturbance impinge on dispersal without physically fragmenting habitats. Landscape fragmentation affects wildlife population viability, in part, through the effects it has on individual dispersal.
