"A Decision Support System for Modelling Wildlife Corridors in India"

Abstract

Wildlife corridors are landscape elements that allow species and processes to flow freely across sections of intact habitat, connecting the ecosystems within the landscapes. Thus, in a particular environment, the areas that link the scattered habitat patches are known as corridors. The main goal of creating conservation corridors is to counter and, to the extent possible, mitigate the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on the biodiversity of the landscape, as well as to support the continuation of land use for vital local and international economic activities in reference. In this study, a network of wildlife corridors with the tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) as the focus species using game theory, graph theory, membership functions, and chain coding algorithm is modelled and designed.