Hello,
I'm studying patch occupancy of a small cavity-nesting bird in relation to land cover types, presence of competing species, etc. I'm hoping to estimate key parameters of Hanski's incidence function model (colonization, extinction, etc) to enable some simulation of how land conversion may alter long-term metapopulation persistence. My understanding is that the IFM requires snapshot data per patch on species presence/absence, patch connectivity, and patch area. For this species, patch area is rather tricky to quantify, which makes further estimation of connectivity more difficult. I am looking then for literature exploring alternative parameterization of the IFM and perhaps different proxies for patch area or connectivity metrics that are independent of patch size.
Thank you
Are you refering to those connectivity graphs, like Gabriel network?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivity_(graph_theory)
Take a look at Ch. 13 of Legendre & legendre 2012. Numerical Ecology
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