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Beyond Ecological Success of Corridors: Integrating Land Use History and Demographic Change to Provide a Whole Landscape Perspective

Sadie J. Ryan and Joel Hartter
Ecological Restoration, December 2012, 30 (4) 320-328; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.30.4.320
Sadie J. Ryan
Sadie Ryan (corresponding author, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, 134 Illick Hall, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, )
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Joel Hartter
Joel Hartter (Department of Geography, University of New Hampshire, 102 Huddleston Hall, 73 Main Street, Durham, NH 03824, )
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The performance of corridors has often been measured through ecological attributes, or the progress towards restoration of a notionally intact section of landscape. A corridor’s ability to reconnect fragmented landscapes is of critical importance for biodiversity conservation. However, what remains understudied is how these corridors within protected area systems fit into the park-people rubric. It is important to learn from older corridors to provide baseline comparisons in terms of restoration, land use and conservation policy, and park-people dynamics. We present an analysis of the landscape of Kibale National Park in western Uganda, which has maintained a corridor with Queen Elizabeth National Park to the south since 1926. The purpose and use of this corridor region has varied over time, from hunting, to biodiversity conservation, to extractive use, to farming. We examined the history of politics and demography both in and around this corridor and used satellite imagery to describe forest cover and conversion in this corridor, prior to and after park establishment. This analysis is useful not only to understand Kibale within a domesticated landscape, but also as a lens into the future of corridors and their larger landscapes in the East African Albertine Rift.

  • Albertine Rift
  • connectivity
  • Kibale National Park
  • land use history
  • Queen Elizabeth National Park
  • Uganda

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Sadie J. Ryan, Joel Hartter
Ecological Restoration Dec 2012, 30 (4) 320-328; DOI: 10.3368/er.30.4.320

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Sadie J. Ryan, Joel Hartter
Ecological Restoration Dec 2012, 30 (4) 320-328; DOI: 10.3368/er.30.4.320
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