A framework to identify priority wetland habitats and movement corridors for urban amphibian conservation

Core corridors: derived from Circuitscape modeling results -top 50% of wood frog, boreal chorus frog and tiger salamander results converted to binary value and summed to produce core corridors (probable movement for 2-3 amphibian species). To derive core corridors, we summed connectivity models for three amphibian species. For each species we derived focal nodes from high habitat value (based on HSI modelling), used three resistance scenarios and summed the three scenarios for each species to represent probable movement pathways between focal nodes. Species connectivity models were then classified to top 50% of the model, and converted to a binary value of 0 to 1. The three species were summed where by values 0-3 represent number of amphibian species the corridor probably supports movement.