Example resistance profiles between modeled breeding patches for focal species.

<p>The paired profiles in this figure depict species-specific resistance in the focal species (solid line) and land facets (dashed line) linkage designs. (A) Elk in the Black Hills-Munds Mountain planning area. Although the gap between breeding patches was approximately the same in both designs (and thus the length of the resistance profiles are approximately the same), the resistance profile from the land facets design contains lower resistance values. (B) White-nosed coati in the Santa Rita-Tumacacori planning area. The relatively long gap between breeding patches in the focal species design was offset by the collective length of the two gaps in the land facets design and their slightly higher resistance profiles. The vertical line indicates a breeding patch between two gaps; line width does not indicate the width of the breeding patch. To smooth distracting peaks and troughs in resistance values, these profiles show the running mean resistance of the cell and its seven previous and seven succeeding cells, with smaller moving averages for the first and last seven resistance values in the profile. See Supporting Information for the raw, unsmoothed resistance profiles and smoothed profiles for all species.