Suggest a corridor for our study

If you are the first to suggest a landscape we eventually use, you will be eligible for a finder’s fee of $250 USD.

Instructions

Before you complete this form, please read our study site criteria! If you want to know why we set these criteria, please read this 8-page pdf. Click the image to the left of our criteria for an example of an ideal study site.

If you do not know the answer to a particular question for your corridor, leave it blank.

To suggest several landscapes, return to this page and submit additional forms.

If you are having trouble with the form, e-mail us.

Site suggestion form

Name: *

E-Mail Address: *

Phone number (with country code -- e.g., “1” for U.S. and Canada):

Country and region of your candidate landscape:

1. Does the landscape include at least one corridor that connects two or more patches of natural habitat?

yes no

2. Please select the approximate number of corridors in the landscape:

1 2 3 more than 3

3. List one or two non-flying species that have suitable habitat in the patches and corridor but are unlikely to use the matrix (land outside the corridor and patches). You may list mammals, reptiles, amphibians, flightless arthropods, or flightless birds (Latin or common name).

4. Is the matrix surrounding the habitat patches also suitable habitat for the species listed above?

yes no

If there is more than one corridor in the landscape, please answer the following two questions for the longest corridor in the landscape:

4a. Choose the broad land cover class that most closely matches the corridor habitat.

grassland or prairie forest riparian marshland desert open-water aquatic shrublands

4b. Choose the broad land cover class that most closely describes the habitat patches connected by the corridor.

grassland or prairie forest riparian marshland desert open-water aquatic shrublands

5. Does the landscape also contain at least two isolated patches (patches without corridors) of the same broad cover type and of approximately the same size as the patches connected by the corridor?

yes no

6. Does the landscape also contain a natural landscape block that is large enough to include two sampling sites as big and widely separated as the patches linked by the corridor (Reference Condition 2)?

yes no

7. List the most important land use adjacent to the corridor (greatest length of corridor edge).

high-density residences and industrial rural residences row-crop agriculture and orchards managed pasture industrial forest other

8. If you specified "other," please explain.

9. List the second most important land use adjacent to the corridor.

high-density residences and industrial rural residences row-crop agriculture and orchards managed pasture industrial forest other

10. If you specified "other," please explain.

11. Approximately how long (meters, patch to patch) is the corridor?

12. Approximately how wide (meters) is the corridor on average?

13. Approximately how long (years) have the patches and corridor been in their present configuration relative to the human-dominated matrix in which they are embedded?

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