FunctionalC
Represents the total amount of habitat area (in hectares) functionally available for an organism located in a patch, given a gap crossing capability of the organism. This is calculated by generating a buffer of size equal to half of the gap crossing capacity of the organism, around all patches, grouping all habitat patches close enough in the same clusters of patches, and summing up the area of all the grouped patches.
The amount of area functionally connected to a habitat patch, given a gap crossing capability of a species or group of interest. First, a buffer of interest equal to half of the width (in meters) that a species is able to cross is created. Then, the habitat patches that are close enough ara grouped within the same buffer. We then sum the area (ha) of all this grouped patches. We refer to these groups of nearby habitat patches as habitat clumps. Finally, to obtain the strict functional connectivity, we calculate the difference between each clump size (ha) and patch size (ha);
The total amount of habitat functionally available for any species, given a gap crossing capability. We do all the steps for the “Functional connectivity” calculation, but do not subtract the patch size from the clump size.
