Community structures in simplicial complexes: an application to wildlife corridor designing in Central India -- Eastern Ghats landscape complex, India
Saurabh Shanu, Shashankaditya Upadhyay, Arijit Roy, Raghunandan, Chundawat, Sudeepto Bhattacharya

TL;DR
This paper applies simplicial complex theory from algebraic topology to model and improve wildlife corridor networks for tigers in Central India's Eastern Ghats, enhancing ecological connectivity understanding.
Contribution
It introduces a novel use of simplicial centrality to better model tiger movement and habitat connectivity compared to previous minimum spanning tree approaches.
Findings
Simplicial complex networks better represent tiger corridors.
The proposed model aligns more closely with ecological reality.
Network centralities identify critical habitat patches.
Abstract
The concept of simplicial complex from Algebraic Topology is applied to understand and model the flow of genetic information, processes and organisms between the areas of unimpaired habitats to design a network of wildlife corridors for Tigers (Panthera Tigris Tigris) in Central India Eastern Ghats landscape complex. The work extends and improves on a previous work that has made use of the concept of minimum spanning tree obtained from the weighted graph in the focal landscape, which suggested a viable corridor network for the tiger population of the Protected Areas (PAs) in the landscape complex. Centralities of the network identify the habitat patches and the critical parameters that are central to the process of tiger movement across the network. We extend the concept of vertex centrality to that of the simplicial centrality yielding inter-vertices adjacency and connection. As a…
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Taxonomy
TopicsPlant and animal studies · Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
